“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ”
“...symptoms: an unreasonable belief that everyone around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him.”
“If that (to travel hopefully is better to arrive) were true, and known to be true, how could anyone travel hopefully? There would be nothing to hope for.”
“But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.”
“To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.”
“One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.”