life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

If you want to write, keep cats.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.