“It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.)”

“Sometimes I like taking lots of steps at a time.""That's how you trip."..."But you get where you're going faster.""Not if you trip.”

“The Great Work is the uniting of opposites. It may mean the uniting ofthe soul with God, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the femalewith the male, of the ego with the non-ego—or what not.”

“It's like when you take a trip with someone you don't know very well. Sometimes, you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realize all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travelers.”

“Paola Calvetti takes readers on a delicious trip through Italy, books, letters and love, reminding us all of the joys of a completely compelling read."Cathie Beck, author of Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship”

“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”