“You will meet great beings when you come out of the well and see the world.”

“Like a book on a shelf I’d waited years to open, Paris had always been waiting for me…”

“So many dream of travel without having an idea of its reality: a language sounds exotic only when you don’t understand it, and a culture appears better than your own only when you aren’t in it.”

“How could I explain in words my craving for freedom, that longing for anonymity, the need to distance myself from everything I knew in my universe?”