• We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

    Joseph Conrad: We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.
    Joseph Conrad, Harold Ray Stevens, J. H. Stape (2010). “Last Essays”, p.113, Cambridge University Press