There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis.

Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned.

I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing.

Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.