I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?

I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.

I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.

I'm drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty.

I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.

I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.