We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.