Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.

Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties (ed. New York Review of Books, 2012) - ISBN: 9781590175446