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

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.

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

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

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.

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

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.