The ultimate luxury in our increasingly gregarious world, the thing more and more refused to each other, is being alone. That is why we need to have delivered to a small local hotel the complete works of Balzac, then announce to everyone our departure on a trip, severing all links and making ourselves unavailable for a few days. […]
Art of Traveling (a text of Dany Laferrière translated by Vadim Bystritski) — Before and After Francis Ponge