I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
Wine is poetry in a bottle.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated.
I've learned. . . that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.
There's no such thing as a mistake--we do it! There's no such thing as an accident--we do it!.
Often, moreover, it is. . . that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.