Here, There, Elsewhere Quotes

“The best memoirs, to my mind, are those reaching far enough beyond an author's life that they leave the genre altogether, like an innocent prisoner, they succeed when they escape confinement.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road

“I live downtown and I work uptown. Six days a week, back and forth, fifty-nine blocks, fifty-five of them underground on the subway. The Lex Line number four-five. That’s my godforsaken life right now. But one of these days I’m going to get out of here and go to, I don’t know, just call it elsewhere. Like, you know, somewhere, anywhere, because I want to see what goes on out there in all those wheres.—DOLORES, NEW YORK CITY WAITRESS, 2001”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road

“What Jefferson and the Corps began so promisingly soon collapsed almost utterly, an indictment of a nation claiming to believe in progress and to revere building upon humane wisdom and informed and compassionate behavior.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road

“From a mere vacation, one goes home older, but from true travel one returns changed by challenge.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road