Lawrence Durrell

Caesar's Vast Ghost - Aspects of Provence, page 14

(Whole peoples form their personalities around what they believe, and there are those who recognize that the primal condition in nature is one of impermanence. They practice anchoring their minds in its flux as the basis for a coherent philosophic life. The moral posture in the matter of death is most important. But one feels that real bliss, the smiling silence of pure transcendence, is Asiatic.)

Caesar's Vast Ghost - Aspects of Provence, page 29

In the case of Pombal, it was only a question of time - he had extended the cooking time of his dishes, and lowered the speed of "cuisson", explaining, 'They are more imbued with my spirit, than dishes which are rushed. Time is the key.'

from Balthazar

'We live lives based upon selected fiction. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed'