Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?

I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?