Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.

A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which something is passing, not a traveller following his own free will.

As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.