How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?

I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony of the East; maybe new technologies and too much travel undermine the idea of provinciality.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

We are often in two places at once. In fact we are usually in at least two places and occasionally the contrast is evident....Here, most often, is nothing more than the best perspective to contemplate there.

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.