Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.