Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

My boredom with everything has numbed me.

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.