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

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

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

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.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

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.

That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.