At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?

Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

Seattle is this curious liberal island.

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.

In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.