I feel very troubled in the head and heart.

the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

travel is compost for the mind

Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.

In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.