Well, ladies and gentlemen, I did not go to the USA last Thursday.

"I realized that the river keeps running in my absence, and I've been reincarnated into something other than that river. Maybe I was always something other than that river."

Tigoni: nothing but mist.

"I'm going crazy."

"'I don't want you to leave in September. I want you to stay here. Maybe you can change your plane tickets.'"

"I hope wherever my journey takes me, I will feel this 'otherness,' this lostness of self."

"The great chess game of independency is beginning. I'm on the ground, a knight, learning how to move."

"I don't want to my world to be imprisoned by what I look like... I'm ready to fall."