As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.
The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.
Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.
The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.