I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation -- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move. Travels with Charley: In Search of America

"The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not imagine what it looked like." Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Remember that impact is the product of two factors: population multiplied times impact per person. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man