What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and walk down there. Travelling by car or aeroplane wouldn't be right at such a moment.

I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.

Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.