To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.

Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

Every invalid is a prisoner.

There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.

Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Yet I ought to know that only music permits a succession of chords.

To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.

[On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?