3 quotations found:

Beware of thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned
properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the
most remote of sources. Take the idea of February 17, a day of canceled
expectations, the day I learned my job teaching English was finished because
of declining enrollement at the college, the day I called my wife from whom
I'd been separated for nine months to give her the news, the day she let slip
about her "friend" -- Rick or Dick or Chick. Something like that.

Source: Blue Highways (opening paragraph)
Date: 2002

That morning, before all the news started hitting the fan, Eddie
Short Leaf, who worked a bottomland section of the Missouri River and plowed
snow off campus sidewalks, told me if the deep cold didn't break soon the
trees would freeze straight through and explode. Indeed.

Source: Blue Highways, Chapter 1
Date: 2002

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and
the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities
just before dawn and a little after dusk -- times neither day nor night -- the
old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they carry a
mysterious cast of blue, and it's that time when the pull of the blue highway
is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where
a man can lose himself.

Source: Blue Highways, epigram to book explaining the title
Date: 2002