A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.

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

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

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

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

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