"Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk."

“Midway through our life’s journey I went astray from the straight road and awoke to find myself alone in a dark wood.”

"But the shadows still remain since your descent"