When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.

I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

All of them had a restlessness in common.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.