I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.