I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Then I saw a design. There on the map...For me, the migration had been to places and moments of glimpsed clarity.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do, especially in other people's minds.

The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday.

Be careful going in search of adventure -- it's ridiculously easy to find.

Beware thoughts that come in the night.

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.