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

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

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

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

"This is continuity, you travel, perhaps in your mind, a paper world real, God reeling up and down landscapes and buil…"

"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…"