...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?

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.

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.

Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.

Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.

In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor.

to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.

I can be so blown away by story lines.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

You can trust a few some of the time, and most none of the time. Feel lucky if you have even one to trust all of the time.