"Say you are invited to dinner, you arrive and the table is set. A succulent piece of steak is served, a little blood …"

"[...] your own are burning and your memories and you don't want to leave them. Everything will burn to the end, you s…"

"3:AM: To bring the conversation back down to earth, one thing I know, which is neither paradoxical nor contradictory,…"

"[...] a course laid between the seed and the snare"

"Since I started with an anecdote, let me continue with one more: There is a Roma friend of mine, Babis, whom I random…"

"And when you can no longer remember, just meaningless things here and there and you can't. But still try even then, a…"

"Die Erde endet in einem Meer von Leichen. // Und die Erde ist ein anderes Meer, hart, // die kranke Wurzel der Liebe …"

"Ἄνθρωπ’, ἀπολεῖς με. τῶν γὰρ ἐκ τῆς ποικίλης στοᾶς λογαρίων ἀναπεπλησμένος νοσεῖς· "ἀλλότριόν ἐσθ’ ὁ πλοῦτος ἀνθρώπῳ,…"

"Ὁ Πανταλέων μὲν αὐτὸς αὐτοὺς τοὺς ξένους τούς τ᾿ ἀγνοοῦντας αὐτὸν ἐπλάνα, καὶ σχεδὸν ἀπεκραιπάλα τὰ πλεῖστα τοῦ γελάσ…"

"Ἐπαρίστερ´ ἔμαθες, ὦ πόνηρε, γράμματα· ἀνέστροφέν σου τὸν βίον τὰ βιβλία· πεφιλοσόφηκας γῇ τε κοὐρανῷ λαλῶν, οἷς οὐθέ…"