Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity.If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates.

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

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.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

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

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