Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.

Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.