Favorite and most often referred to book in my library is Roget's Thesaurus. Just one hour over drinks with William Shakespeare, Orson Welles, Howard Koch, Groucho Marx, Billy Wilder, Woody Allen, Cary Grant, Marianne Faithfull, Juliette Binoche, John Stewart, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, or Keith Richard and I'd know everything I ever needed to know about life.