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.

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...

God is my strength and my defense. When I am weak, he makes me strong. When I am broken, he makes me whole.

Rumor has it: when you marry a Walsh you are set for life. Only one thing can screw it up.

Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don’t.

Happy is the man who marries the woman he wants

Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you.

Here's a hot tip: Most girls don't like being stalked.

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.

I heard that I have three ribs, that I have more surgeries than Cher - whatever they say, they say; I know who I am.