Author: baronvoncrow

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.

Robin Williams

It isn’t just a village. The houses aren’t just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else.

Joanne Harris, ‘Blackberry Wine’

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

David Byrne (who has never walked from Canterbury to Rome)

‘Is This Paradise?’
‘I can guarantee you that it isn’t,’ Jubal assured him. ‘My taxes are due this week.’

Robert A. Heinlein, ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’

… liminal spaces,
The half-tamed and unruly patch
Where the forest gives way

Carrie Newcomer, ‘Liminality’

Look at their shoes!

Charles Beaumont, ‘A Spy Alone’

I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack. 

Will.i.am

Troops who march in an irregular and disorderly manner are always in great danger of being defeated. They should march with the common military step twenty miles in five summer-hours’

Vegetius, De Re Militari