Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
Rebecca Solnit...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.
Rebecca SolnitThe new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.
Rebecca SolnitWe 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.
Rebecca Solnit