“The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.”
“End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”
“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
“In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.”
“The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.”
“The island had come to seem one of those places seen from the train that belong to a life in which we shall never take part.”