You were born together, and together you shall be forever more.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Something in us is telling us we're moving too fast, at a pace dictated by machines rather than by anything human, and that unless we take conscious measures, we'll permanently be out of breath.

Sometimes I wonder whether anything is learned in conservation, or whether the big NGOs are for ever destined to follow a circular track, endlessly repeating their mistakes.

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.

Lou Reed was an ideal figure to me. He was bisexual, like me, and seemed to inhabit an ambiguous middle place on the masculine-feminine spectrum.