Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.
South or north, or east, my body floats away, just look at it, the shining of hope, the faraway distances the stars light.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.