For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.

Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

Beware thoughts that come in the night.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.

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

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

. . . still we are none of us perfect . . .

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.

This is a ridiculous heat wave we're in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air.

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

You don’t have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.

There's nothing wrong with saying, "I want to have more," "I want to be more," "I did this for money."

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.