If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That’s the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It’s dream time.

when you see your world die, maybe you will see how real i tried to be

Although he knew many people in the town by name or face, the mute was his only friend. They would idle in the quiet room and drink the ales. He would talk, and the words created themselves from the dark mornings spent in the streets or in his room alone. The words were formed and spoken with relief.

Perhaps I’m being unfair to you,” he said, still not sounding like himself. “My feeling must be of the species they call passion…One thing I know for sure: without you it’s the end of me, and with you it’s also the end. It makes no difference where you are: far or near, you’re always present. I also know that I could hate you a good deal more than I could love you…I’m sorry that I had to fall in love with someone like you.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.

I always wonder why
birds stay
in the same place
when they can fly
anywhere on the earth.
Then I ask myself
the same question.