"If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup."

“You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

“Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly happy has been granted. Imagine knowing you can once again hold your lost lover or your newborn child. Imagine what you feel during those first seconds of knowing. Now, imagine those first seconds last for days on end. .... Like I said, I'm a chemist. It's all coming back to me.p62”

“Any woman who can’t say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.”

“Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain.”

“I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.”

“I never meant to be but a dreamer.”

“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”

“No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.”