"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the..."
- Cormac McCarthy
"Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies."
- Vera Nazarian
"Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly..."
- Charlotte Eriksson
"His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep."
"A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering against the overcast like the northern lights. Cold as it was he stood there a long time. The color of it..."
"You have to pay attention to the road even if you don't know where you're going."
- Marty Rubin
"Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining high up in the sky and my head spinning comforting from two bottles of wine, and I..."
"Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean—an ever changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out..."
- Jack London
"The journey took about a week each way, and each day had my parents both in its grip. Riding behind my father, I could see that the road had him by the shoulders, by the hair under his driving cap. It..."
- Eudora Welty
"Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?"