1、One thought that I've not been able to cast out of my mind is…how sad it is that this great man, he devoted his life to this work. Nobody ever really appreciated it, or even understood his genius. Because in order to understand a work, you must engage with it. And until now with Wagner's Ring cycle, nobody could. I finally understand.
2、It's a doorway to another realm, my friends. And providence has brought you to me. We go through it together.
3、Can it be opened, and by me? I don't know. I honestly don't. But of the world's living locksmiths, do I represent your greatest chance of opening it? I can, with humility, say yes.
4、Seeing that she had not just gotten me a passport, but a plane ticket to the same place she was going, it broke my heart. "Ludwig Dieter." It broke my heart thinking of all the adventures we could have had, the things we could have shared, because in that moment, I knew that of all the people in the world, there was only one I wanted to be with. And it was her.
But that was okay. I would wait for her. And we would one day be reunited in the vault of the Götterdämmerung.