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

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.