Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

Writing is a mysterious activity.