I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!
“It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.”
“Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.”