It is, indeed, not necessary to shew by many instances what all mankind confess, by an incessant call for variety, and restless pursuit of enjoyments, which they value only because unpossessed.
–Dr. Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750
Most vagabonds I knowed don’t ever want to find the culprit
That remains the object of their long relentless quest
The obsession’s in the chasing and not the apprehending
The pursuit you see and never the arrest
Tom Waits, Foreign Affairs, 1977
