"He was working on a book of his own: It would be a 'manual of poverty'. He hadn't yet decided on a title.
Today, he said, more than ever before, men had to learn to live without things. Things filled men with fear: the more things they had, the more they had to fear. Things had a way of riveting themselves on to the soul and then telling the soul what to do."

Father Terence, in "The Songlines", Bruce Chatwin