I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.
Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi