Stephen Pern > Quotes

“I should have stopped to rest sooner that morning, but didn’t. I’d got a bad dose of the NFEs. NFE stands for Not Far Enough – the irresistible compulsion to go on and on till you ruin whatever you’re doing. In this case it was wading through sage, but it happens with many other things – tightening a bolt is a classic example, though painting, writing, [and] correcting a child are all susceptible. The solution, of course, is knowing when to stop.”
― Stephen Pern, The Great Divide

“On a journey like this the emptier the landscape, the emptier my mind is content to be.”
― Stephen Pern, Unfenced Country

“To me maps are the keys that unlock your human right to wander wherever on the earth's surface you choose, or, to be a bit less naϊve, wherever on it you can get away with without being thrown off,”
― Stephen Pern, Unfenced Country