"And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide."
- Gerry Abbey
"I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself."
"Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!"
"We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation - foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose - was a r..."
- Geoff Dyer