Bernard Pivot

“Wine is not just pleasure, it is culture.”

“A poorly chosen word can spoil the best of feelings.”

“My job is to make books, and authors, speak.”

“Wine is the intellectual part of a meal.”

“The advantage of old age is that you have known all the wines when they were young.”

“Reading is a vice that feeds on solitude.”

“Culture is what answers man when he asks himself what he is doing on earth.”

“A book is a bottle thrown into the open sea; one must hope it reaches a safe harbor.”

“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.”

“One must read to live, not live to read.”

“A book that one leaves without having extracted something from it is a book that one has not read.”

“You cannot be a good journalist if you do not like people.”

“When you have a passion, you have to feed it.”

“A library is the crossroads of all of humanity's dreams.”

“On television, you have to surprise. If you don't astonish, you bore.”

“I have spent my life trying to get the French to read. It's a fight.”

“I am a ferryman.”