CHRISTOPHER WALSH

“Drinking during such an occasion was not simply comforting. More essentially, it proved liberating, as it freed the individual from mundane duties and returned him or her to a primeval state of spiritual solace.”
― Paul Lukacs, Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures

“pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds