Riverman Quotes

“Once you set yourself in motion, he stressed, self-pity is supplanted by greater urgencies.”
― Ben McGrath, Riverman: An American Odyssey

“Libraries, of course, are bastions of imaginative escapism, and full of books about holy fools and traveling wise men, and I suppose I’d expected a little more enthusiasm about the prospect that a waterborne Don Quixote had been toiling in their midst, undercover.”
― Ben McGrath, Riverman: An American Odyssey

“performative sense of rectitude.”
― Ben McGrath, Riverman: An American Odyssey

“No fleeting moment can bear the scrutiny that a lone voyager is able to give it.”
― Ben McGrath, Riverman: An American Odyssey