if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where all lapsed lovers of America, even loyalists like me experiencing spasms of disillusionment, should be taken for refresher courses. The tides of all-American conformity beat vainly against the San Franciscan rock.
Jan MorrisBook lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.
Jan MorrisI know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody elseโs county, where the climate is different, the food is different, the light is different, where the mundane preoccupations of life at home donโt seem to apply and it is even fun to go shopping.
Jan MorrisThe city bursts with ideas as with traffic, a swirl of newness and surprise. Who can be bored in a city? If you are tired of one activity you can try something else, change your job, take your custom to another restaurant.
Jan MorrisWorldwide travel is not compulsory. Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land. Da Vinci and Beethoven never left Europe. Shakespeare hardly went anywhere at all-certainly not to Elsinore or the coast of Bohemia.
Jan Morris