Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

The most ignorant of all people is a person who is self assured in his or her premature decisions.

It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.

It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

He killed them with their love.

All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.