“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
“To arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context,as pretty scenery. But to arrive after days of hard travel across the prairies would be to see them in another way, as a goal, a promised land.”
“I am all for curses and superstition, but there's a point at which they start getting in the way. That point had arrived.”
“That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.”
“drill one hole after another into [language] until that which lurks behind, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through – I cannot imagine a higher goal for today’s writer.”
“Starting a long way off the true point by loops and zigags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.”