Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.

I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.