We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.

Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John Cabot. Nobody can teach the geography of the undiscovered. All he can do is encourge the will to explore, plus impress upon the inexperienced a few of the dos and don'ts of voyaging.

I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.