And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?

I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.

It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything.

Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.

Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.