With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.

Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea.

Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.