I've got to say, I can cope with lots of different feelings at once. I can be totally happy yet quite ill at the same time. I'm really consumed with doubts about life and also a disregard for death. This combination is perfectly possible if your spirit is strong, if you're robust. I mean, for someone who wants to fight to the bitter end and is as cynical as the King of Siam.
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
The only biodiversity we're going to have left, he says, is Coke versus Pepsi.