I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.