One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

Do you know the wish of your heart?" - The Darkest Road

There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.

Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.