Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.
One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.
Risk is the salt and sugar of life.
I'm falling into disrepair
The German birthrate is below replacement levels, meaning the population is shrinking, meaning fewer and fewer people of age to join the labor force.
It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
My father was a bullfighter.