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.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

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

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

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.

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

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.