Long-Range Planning

In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won’t happen.

-John Steinbeck, Travels with Charlie, 777.

Giving Directions

The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.

-John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley, 771.