Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear....

The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you

What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they do – an extension of themselves, in fact! Even Christianity does not cure us, since one...

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.