We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

Hello Kitty will never speak.

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see what you most deeply care about… and find a home.

As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.