If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another..

The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above..

Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as n….

Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than to the next, mo….

The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpat….

I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, d….

If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out..

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that t….

You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are dark and hard to….

[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, wh….

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small..

The soul is the weariest part of the body..

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that ….

Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west..

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the m….

She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze..

It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - th….

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless..

No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's the most intense kind of massag….

It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's no friction in it. There'….

The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's h….