Last Bus to Wisdom Quotes

“Life is a zigzag journey, they say, not much straight and easy on the way, but the wrinkles in the map, explorers know, smooth out like magic at the end of where we go.”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“What is Imagination but mental mischief of a kind, and why can't the youngster protectively occupy himself with invention of that sort before maturity works him over?”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“Believe me, I have looked this up, and the roots of fate and faith are not the same. Nonetheless, I picked up my wicker suitcase to follow Herman the German into the Old Faithful Inn.”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?—it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. —JACK KEROUAC, On the Road”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“Hooting and hollering, the crowd reliably responded as if that were the height of humor, while Herman slapped me on the back and nearly fell off his gunnysack seat guffawing and I laughed as hard as if I hadn’t heard that mossy joke at every rodeo I had ever been to. Life can tickle you in the ribs surprisingly when it’s not digging its thumb in.”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“THAT BEGAN a spell of time when the high point of my days was the sugar on my cereal.”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“It’s funny about imagination, how it”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“Although I was the one cast out alone onto a transcontinental bus, home was running away from me”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“The cheerful sentiments in the autograph book seemed sickly against the true messages of life. Loco things happened without rhyme or reason, and that was that. The most hard-hearted set of words in the language, and the only ones that seemed to count in the end.”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“Wrinkled in concentration, Herman followed my logic around all the corners he could,”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“innocent as the devil filing his fingernails,”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“Would you look at them long legs on Rags,” some admirer over at the chutes remarked. “The Lord took his time when he split him up the middle.”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“Maybe takes some Fingerspitzengefühl, hah?”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“If is biggest word there is,”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“the sound of someone speaking from past the grave.”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“I have read that the finest Persian carpets would have one strand deliberately left astray, to avoid the sin of pride that perfection might bring.”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“NOW CAME OUR INTRODUCTION to Smiley, former rodeo clown, whose name outside the costume might as well have been Cranky as Hell.”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“Gram is . . . is herself again, I’ll have”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom

“my eye lest I be invaded by”
― Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom