“We cannot road trip to Paris.”

“Rift, routes, rails ("Rifts, Roads and Rails"), Gallimard, Paris 2001,”

“They mean a trip to Paris or Rome
To someone else but not for me.
The trains and boats and planes
Took you away, away from me.”

“The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!”

“I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.”

“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”

“Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.”

“Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.”

“It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.”

“We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.”