I am fully conscious that a complete presentation of the regions visited is a task beyond my power. All I can strive to do is convey an illusion-my own illusion

Questions are creative acts of intelligence.

Make sure you want it enough.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Your beliefs attract to you the life you experience.

His silence helps him come off as something of a seer, a whispering muse.

Man is flawed

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

We all are born mad. Some remain so.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.