Explore Quotes by William Least Heat-Moon

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

To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.

A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.