It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Never confuse movement with action.

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?