If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

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

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

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.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their social yearnings towards pomposity. This is possible because most euphemisms permit the speaker to multiply syllables, and the middle class confuses sheer numerousness with weight and value.