“In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated!”

“Some minds are like concrete - all mixed up and permanently set.”

“You can be on the right track and still get hit by a train!”

“What, me worry?”

“Yes we can't!”

“Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand the other person and, inevitably, to misinterpret them. To construct a precarious language together.”

“Packing a bag doesn't make you aware of changes, rather it compels you to postpone the past, and the present is taken up with concerns about the immediate. Time slides over the travelers' skin.”