The song and the land are one.

For life is a journey through a wilderness

The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?

As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.

'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries of the world.'

Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.