“It's an adventure story. But it's definitely not in our world.”

“We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.”

“One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.”

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

“Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story.”

“A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.”

“Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.”

“And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.”

“I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.”

“At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.”