“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”

“There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.”

“That which is original creates a new origin. That which is original, by definition, must stray off the previously worn paths. It must wander; it must err.”

“So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.”

“...the angel in man-- has also been my own life-long obsession. In a sense I believe it has always been the problem of the creative being... obsessed... with the idea of re-creating the world in order, as I see it, to re-establish man's innocence.”

“[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.”