Leonard

“Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

“Everything has its own torture chamber, but also its own paradise.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country