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.

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

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

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

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

The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others.

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