The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.