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People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

The straight line is ungodly.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

For time is the longest distance between two places.