Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.

Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course that he had left - or, rather, the true course he had obscurely been seeking all this time. (Last line of the story The Adventure of a Photographer )

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can then hand it on to her, to communicate again with her through the channel dug by others' words, which, as they are uttered by an alien voice, by the voice of that silent nobody made of ink and typographical spacing, can become yours and hers, a language, a code between the two of you, a means to exchange signals and recognize each other.