Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?

I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.

When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.

...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.