Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.