The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.