“Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think. They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outwards in space, but inwards as well. Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection....”

“I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.”

“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.”

“Truth disappears with the telling of it.”

“History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.”

“The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.”

“Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.”

“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”

“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.”

“Love is poetry plus biology.”