"A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned — in the very same prison — by the employment contract that he has signed."

"No, solitude did not trouble her. She could spend long minutes gazing out the window, hours listening to the BBC on the public radio station. She relished the very texture of her privacy, its depth of space and freedom, much of an entire day hers alone."

"Are you certain they never cut your member off?' Tormund gave a shrug, as if to say he would never understand such madness. 'Well, you are a free man now, but if you will have the girl, best find yourself a she-bear. If a man does not use his member it grows smaller and smaller, until one day he wants to piss and cannot find it."

"Searching means having a goal, but finding means being free, being open, having no goal ... Because in striving for your goal there are many things you do not see, which are directly in front of your eyes."