Blue Highways: A Journey into America

by William Least Heat-Moon

“Satisfaction is doin’ what’s important to yourself. A man ought to honor other people, but he’s got to honor what he believes in too.”

I wound about, crossing three identical bridges or crossing one bridge three times.

Find a way to make people get bored with hating instead of helping. Simple.” She laughed. “That’s what it boils down to.”

He had so lost belief in a world outside himself that, without crisis, he had nothing worth talking about. On and on, the tolling of words revealed his expertise in living a life that baffled him.

A man’s work is doing what he’s supposed to do, and that’s why he needs a catastrophe now and again to show him a bad turn isn’t the end, because a bad stroke never stops a good man’s work.