O. R. Melling Quotes

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

All of life is a foreign country.

Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air.

For life is a journey through a wilderness

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space

Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.

Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea.

A woman is a foreign land.

Whenever I explore the land of Yin, I always take one on the chin.

XXIX Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. Traveller, the path is your tracks And nothing more. Traveller, there is no path The path is made by walking. By walking you make a path And turning, you look back At a way you will never tread again Traveller, there is no road Only wakes in the sea.

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

Not all those who wander are lost.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.