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

All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

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

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.

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.