“Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work.”

“We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.”

“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.”

“Anyone who lives in her own world is crazy. Like schizophrenics, psychopaths, maniacs. I mean people who are different from others.'Like you?'On the other hand,' Zedka continued, pretending not to have heard the remark, 'you have Einstein, saying that there was no time or space, just a combination of the two. Or Columbus, insisting that on the other side of the world lay not an abyss but a continent. Or Edmund Hillary, convinced that a man could reach the top of Everest. Or the Beatles, who created an entirely different sort of music and dressed like people from another time. Those people--and thousands of others--all lived in their own world.”

“That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

“That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

“The true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”