The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.

I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.