The wise traveler 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.

So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy,the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.

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

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

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