The first step to delighting your customers is being there when they need you.
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.
All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.
Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.
Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me.
Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.
But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.
Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.