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

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.

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...

Failure could bring the best opportunity to start the most wonderful life.

It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal.But I do not.I do not.

If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.

I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes

I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.

Honestly, if you're just going to be the love interest then at least let it be a really good movie. Not every role is going to be Hamlet, I know that.

The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours