The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

It was amazing that you did not become your grief entirely, and walk about leaking it everywhere.

You used to be the best to make life be real to me, and I hope that you're still out there and you're like you used to be

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?

The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.

I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.

During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window.