"Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”

“I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.”

“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.”

“I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.”

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America”

“Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.”

“The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.”

“I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.”

“We possess art lest we perish of the truth.”