We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.
I would distinguish between a visitor and a pilgrim: both will come to a place and go away again, but a visitor arrives, a pilgrim is restored. A visitor passes through a place; the place passes through the pilgrim.