This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That's what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.

Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1964) - ISBN: 9780395547038