“I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.”

“You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.”

“Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.”

“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.”

“It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.”

“When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.”

“Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.”

“A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so l...”

“The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.”