“Every one of us has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. ”

“For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.”

“Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind.”

“His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself.”

“Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.”

“One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.”