Where can you be alone? In a crowd. How can you be nowhere? If you don’t stop moving. Where had I seen people meditating? In cars. What place is most conducive to introspection? The motorway.
On such roads which are abstractions of roads I would progress towards knowledge. As they are plain and always the same, skirting towns and flattening the landscapes they cross, they teach people that what’s important is purification.
Looking Inwards on the Autobahn
Charles Dantzig
Found in:
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2: From Colette to Marie NDiaye