George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

There are three things the prospective traveler to Russia does well to bear in mind. One: It is their country. Two: Most foreigners are profoundly relieved that this is so. Three: You don't have to go.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.