Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

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.

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.