"I am telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world."

Didn't I tell you that the darkness would not last forever?

"All of us who have got this far, all of us who have survived - how can we be dumb? Dumb could not come this far, I am telling you."

"What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing machine and the refrigerator and they make believe they are in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around them. Me and my sister, we used to hide in a gap in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around us, and make believe that we had a washing machine and a refrigerator. You live in a world of machines and you dream of things with beating hearts. We dream of machines, because we see where beating hearts have left us."

His washing hung like prayer flags, petitioning daytime gods: I seem to have moved to the suburbs, I'm afraid. Can anything be done?

"Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying."