Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's easier to pick up than to drop.

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.

I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.

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

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

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

Seattle is this curious liberal island.