The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.