Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full

The harder the life, the finer the person.

I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.

The meat smelt rank and was very tough, the soup was greasy and of a curious flavour, but it was a wonderful meal after all these hungry weeks.

The only thing that stops you from from success is fear of the unknown

Lovers are the best birds in the world when they know how to fly higher...

There's a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself.

It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. But you do, from your experience, surmise something. You do give a photograph symbolic content, narrative content... But it's nothing to worry about!

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.