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

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake.

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place.