Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

a culture is no better than its woods

But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.