"The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it."
"The task of the writer is to make the invisible visible."
"Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it."