“There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find ...” — William Least Heat-Moon Quote

“There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.”

“The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.”

“I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.”

“I know what it's like to be genuinely intrigued and compelled by a story and to have a sense that there's an adventure to be had and a film to be conjured.”

“Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.”

“You try to bring a smile to people's faces, and try to tell people of the adventure you've been on, the success you've had and what it takes.”