To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.
The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
The engineering is secondary to the vision.
Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
What we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done.
Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.