The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.