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.

Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction