"I am the Naga, always moving in those shadows that people are afraid of, the unknown waters where the wreckage of ambition sinks." P. 6

"Bangkok, being a place where desire has no boundaries, was the perfect allegory for a universal condition." P. 41

"The spirit of the Naga is the spirit of the unexpected. It comes from the depths" P. 53

"... he could sense the presence within him of the Naga, the mysterious spirit of nature that lay behind all the things that man tried and failed to dominate." P. 255