One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another.

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Each day is a little bit of history

The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'