Henri Michaux

"A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the moment of signing he is suddenly afraid. So he casts the first stone. Here."

"You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important."

"It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons."

"In my night, I besiege my King. I rise up steadily and I wring his neck. He regathers his strength, I come back at him, and wring his neck another time. I shake him, shake him like an old prune tree, …"

"A mind of a certain size can feel only exasperation toward a city. Nothing can drive me more fully into despair. The walls first of all, and even then all the rest is only so many horrid images of sel…"

"No, I have already said it elsewhere. This earth has had all the exoticism washed out of it. If in a hundred years we have not established contact with some other planet , or, next best, with the eart…"

"It is preferable not to travel with a dead man."