There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

There are no inanimate objects.

The past is a sorry country.