Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless. Haji Bektash Veli We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.