Ella Maillart

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I was always the classroom clown, and the teachers allowed me a certain latitude. The assemblies were good, and the headmaster used to tell little stories; I loved the idea of communal storytelling.