1. “The fog moved swiftly and was rent by holes, a fragment of wroght iron or baroque dome appeared momentarily in fine focus. There. That too was the past, I realized: a hole in the fog you could see right through.”
2. “These lands require a love for the obscure.”
3. “The workings of my eyes taught me the first canon of national survival: that an entire world can be created out of very little light.”
4. “What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?”
