“Always to be pushing out like this, beyond what I know cannot be the limits - what else should a man's life be?”

“What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.”

“I now have of a life that stretches beyond the limits of measurable time.”

“What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?”

“That is what life meant, a unique presence, and it was essential in every creature.”

“I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives”

“I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become… This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.”