Quotes by M. Fisher

• There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
• Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
• Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
• War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
• Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
• 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 is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.
• Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.