I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.

Life is a series of dogs.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

Gods you avoid won't hurt you.

There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.