Quintessential Quote For Today

" ..and of course to wish me a hearty appetite (Bon Appetite) is about the same as saying, "Merry Christmas" on August 15 or "Good Night" in broad daylight.
In the last 8 months I have swallowed nothing save a few drops of lemon-flavored water and a half tea spoon of yogurt, which gurgled noisily down my wind pipe...

I have to turn to the vivid memory of tastes and smells, an inexhaustible reservoir of sensations."

Jean - Dominique Bauby ailing from "locked in syndrome"