Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.

Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.

I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one.

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

For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

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

I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.