“I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.”

“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”

“and then you stopped. And looked at me. And I knew then exactly what was going to happen. You kissed me, yes. But it was not just goodnight. Even then, I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you would kiss me just like that, forever.”

“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.”

“Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage.”

“They just come, I promise. It is nothing that I plan.”

“I don't like you two going off on you won. Just remember: behave. If I hear about any funny business, I will ground you until the Styx freezes over.”

“I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.”

“I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates… Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.”

“all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.”