One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether ones heart is on earth or in heaven. – Pir Vilayat Khan
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that Ill never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence. – Ian Mcewan
You think about some of the most memorable meals youve ever had the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste. – Heston Blumenthal
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People dont deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them! – Louis-Ferdinand Celine