It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

The best way to worship God is to honor His people

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.

A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.