Ron Bottorff

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

“Roncesvalles;”
― James Lee Burke, A Private Cathedral

“I see my love of country imbued with a responsibility to bear witness to its faults.”
― Dan Rather, What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism

“But everyone has a private cathedral that he earns, a special place to which he returns when the world is too much late and soon, and loss and despair come with the rising of the sun.”
― James Lee Burke, A Private Cathedral