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.

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?

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

When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent.

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

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