Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.

Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

Beware thoughts that come in the night.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

When you have the means and information to cure a disease and don't . . . you are the disease.

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

When's the last time you went into a barber shop and saw everyone there unconsious?

But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

He really wished she would stop fingering the brick.

There is a difference between having a vision and suffering from a hallucination.

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.

I will never abandon you. I love you too much.