"Some hard and dry book in a..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.”

“The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.”

“There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.”

“Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.”

“With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have to have a plot - I say "obviously," although I think a lot of fiction doesn't, and nothing seems to happen. But to me, there should be something that happens, and it should be at least vaguely plausible. And because the readers are going to be with these characters for a long time, you have to get to know them and like them and want to know what happens to them.”

“Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.”

“One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.”

“Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!”

“Remember why you started, remember where you're headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.”