A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another..

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live..

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay..

The promenade is a special subset of walking..

Roads are a record of those who have gone before..

In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation and trivialization t….

A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing, or doing at least two thin….

Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom..

The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather tha….

Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do..

No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more..

The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and new economy is ….

I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical an….

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen..

Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production - oriented society and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it….

EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains..

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together..

I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not t….

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white..

I walk wherever my errands take me..

Credibility is a basic survival tool..