The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

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

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.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

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.

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