Sideways Quotes

“You're such a cheater. The best wood in your golf bag is your pencil!”
― Rex Pickett, Sideways

“Pinot Noir country. My grape. The one varietal that truly enchants me, both stills and steals my heart with its elusive loveliness and false promises of transcendence. I loved her, and I would continue to follow her siren call until my wallet--or liver, whichever came first--gave out.”
― Rex Pickett, Sideways

“I can't kill myself, I thought. I'm too insignificant. I'm nothing. I'm a thumbprint on the first-floor window of a skyscraper, a smudge of excrement on a tissue surging out to sea along with millions of tons of raw sewage, a squirrel eating a nut as a car bore down on him.”
― Rex Pickett, Sideways

“I forced a swift smile, then turned back to my glass, salvation and sanctuary viniferously bundled into one.”
― Rex Pickett, Sideways

“We were drinking a memory, one that would be forever associated with the memory of this trip.”
― Rex Pickett, Sideways

“Maya, Indian goddess of illusions. Siren of shipwrecked sailors. If only you lactated Pinot Noir, you’d be perfect.”
― Rex Pickett, Sideways

“He had retreated into a silent movie of his own making and I was watching from the anonymous remove of a theater seat. He was flickering, growing distant, fading like the '82 Latour.”
― Rex Pickett, Sideways

“Mr. Happiness is an illusion created by pharmaceutical companies.”
― Rex Pickett, Sideways

“I made a mental note not to give up all hope in humankind.”
― Rex Pickett, Sideways

“Palate properly whetted, I spelunked for her clitoris, tasting Bourgogne Rouge and Maya's body.”
― Rex Pickett, Sideways