The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be.

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

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.

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

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.