A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not.

... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane.

Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.

Drifting across the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, already on desert time.

...I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival...

An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

I know how long I need to be working to make my dreams become a reality.

I didn't really enjoy modeling in Bombay. I floated through it in the hopes that I would get my ticket to the next big thing. There was no real joy that I got out of it, to be really honest.

Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours," declared the Major.

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

I'm terrible at heights. I hate it. I'm glad I'm only 5'7".