Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.

I'm an artist and you can fantasize about me however you want.

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

Love always leaves a significant mark.