Henri Michaux

"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…"

"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, …"

"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."