Tom Wolfe gone. For years I thought Bonfire of the Vanities to be an unsurpassable

[Sir C]

tell me c, your rather splendid line "A man needs no drug save a glass of good wine and a love of his country" - your own?

I remember no such line, h. If it fell out of me one day, that is pleasing, but I am reminded of Lord Nelson's reported comment when offered a cloak on a dark, cold night on deck, "I have love of my country to keep me warm." So if I said it, I basically nicked it.