I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.
With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.
A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.
Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.
Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.
To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course. . . We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb. . . to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.
God must be very great to have created a world that leaves a mystery as to whether he created it.
If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.
Never choose the easy path. Choose the one that has morals