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.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

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

The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others.

A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.

All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel