You don't even know where I'm going.""I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

...people don’t take trips—trips take people.

The difference between false memories and true ones is thesame as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look themost real, the most brilliant.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

Various Horsemen are abroad, doing their various Apocalyptic things.

Your mum pounced on her and started sucking away. Would’ve been arousing if not for all the screaming.” “Ian,” Bones drew out warningly. He grinned. “You’re right. I was aroused anyway.

The grass is not always greener on the other side. You learn to appreciate these people.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.