I'm insatiably curious.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.

It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.)

The wind always brings us back to the same wall

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.