Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.

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

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.