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16 quotes by William Least Heat-Moon

William Least Heat-Moon, also named William Lewis Trogdon (born August 27, 1939), is an American travel writer and historian of English, Irish, and Osage ancestry. He is the author of various bestselling books of topographical U.S. travel writing.
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Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

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The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got... →

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When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are... →

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I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to... →

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I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white... →

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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... →

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Beware thoughts that come in the night.

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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

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I simply couldn't make it without a copilot.

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Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you... →

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Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify... →

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It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of... →

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