I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.
Bruce ChatwinI pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.
Bruce ChatwinMan's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.
Bruce Chatwin'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries of the world.'
Bruce Chatwin