The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.