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

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

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

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

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.