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

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

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

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.