If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. – Henry David Thoreau
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. – Katherine Dunn
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. – George Leigh Mallory
