I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.

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.

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.

It's very nice having my mum as my agent. You know that she's always doing what's best for you.

Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships

The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

I have no clan, nor any rank. I am unique.

Every gift of God is to be enjoyed as from God and not like a God.

In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities.

Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]