“Strange, how death had a way of turning a table upside down in an instant. It swept away all the dust that covered treasures, blew the fog from one’s view, knockedaway facades.”

“When dreams are turned away, death becomes the ultimate salvation….There are only two extremes in human madness: the instant when you become aware of your own impotence and the instant when you become aware of the vulnerability of others. It’s a question of accepting one’s madness…or suffering it.”

“If I had to say how I felt, I would say like a box that had been turned upside down. And the box was surprised by just how empty it was.”

“It is strange how interiors reflect their dark turbulent past, how in their stillness bygone history tries to be reenacted, how the same situations repeat themselves with infinite variations, turned upside down and inside out by fruitless dialectic of wallpapers and hangings.”

“In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.”

“So much has happened it's as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down.”