Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world.

Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.

That's all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out - so far out you can't follow them all the way to the end.

I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.

Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.