I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

