I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?