We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

I just dress like… I’m an old black man. Sorry! Like I’m an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it’s still the ’50s.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it’s being with my kids.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

Language is wine upon the lips.

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

I’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‚If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.‘

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn’t a rule about this. But there’s a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

I’m working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It’s a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.