Despair is easy, or at least low cost..

...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else..

For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's alread….

I think that fear of the mob, the expectation that people, particularly poor and nonwhite people become mobs almost automatically in the absence of c….

In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptuall….

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason..

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?.

Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to….

A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience..

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citi….

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

The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation Never to get lost is ….

Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant..

Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the a….

A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want..

In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as….

Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or w….

When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones, it seems like a hundred ye….

I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to t….

If you look at a lot of traditional societies, they're all organized along what we might call anarchist guidelines, but it's not like the Zapatistas ….

We are often in two places at once. In fact we are usually in at least two places and occasionally the contrast is evident....Here, most often, is no….