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

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.

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

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

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...

You are the Winner, You are the Looser, You are the Sinner, It all depends upon how serious are you about.

So, with all this time on my hands, I decided to start a revolution.

If it's true that men are such beasts this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Donald Trump speaks extemporaneously, often through stream of consciousness, where it doesn't seem to follow a trajectory.

I would call myself more spiritual than religious.

I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!

After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.