"The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth"
"Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice."
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Source: Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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