If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.