Craig Bellamy

“Once in their youth the light shone for them; they saw the light and followed the star, but then came reason and the mockery of the world; then came faint-heartedness and apparent failure; then came weariness and disillusionment, and so they lost their way again, they became blind again.”
― Hermann Hesse, The Journey to the East: A Novel

“Kitsch and tourism are inseparable partners. Perhaps it is because, by definition, both are inauthentic.”
― Don Watson, The Bush

“It’s strange, isn’t it? No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“From Kathmandu there is a road through Gorkha Country to Pokhara, in the central foothills; farther west, no roads exist at all. The road winds through steep gorges of the Trisuli River, now in torrent; dirty whitecaps filled the rapids, and the brown flood was thickened every now and again by thunderous rockslides down the walls of the ravine.”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard