My name is Isak Borg and I am 78. Tomorrow I shall receive an honorary degree in Lund Cathedral.
Read more Dr. Eberhard Isak Borg QuotesFrom: Wild Strawberries
Marianne Borg: I saw you with your mother, and I was panic-stricken.Professor Isak Borg: I don't understand.Marianne Borg: I thought: That's his mother. An old woman, cold as ice, more forbidding than death. And this is her son, and there are light years between them. He himself says he's a living corpse. And Evald is growing just as lonely, cold and dead. And I thought of the baby inside me. All along the line, there's nothing but cold and death and loneliness. It must end somewhere.
There should be a law forbidding women to smoke.
Dr. Evald Borg: It's absurd to bring children into this world and think they'll be better off than we were.Marianne Borg: That's just an excuse.Dr. Evald Borg: Call it what you want. I was an unwanted child in a hellish marriage.