At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has broug… - William Least Heat-Moon

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At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

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About William Least Heat-Moon

William Least Heat-Moon, also named William Lewis Trogdon (born 27 August 1939), is an American travel writer and historian of English, Irish, and Osage ancestry.

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