People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more than usef….

It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most likel….

It was going to be the journey of a lifetime, a journey that millions dream of and never make, and I wanted to do justice to all those dreams..

There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhere there is a matrix for mankind and a holograph ….

To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions. What value can there be in seeing o….

Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons..

That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my way from one place to another. I have changed ….

I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them..

The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social idea….