"I have always been a solitary man. I have always preferred books to people."

"The future is inevitable."

"There is no exercise for the heart but the exercise of love."

"A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and people. A s…"

"I am not a philosopher. I am a man of letters. I am a man of words."