"I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons."

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I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.

— Quentin S. Crisp