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.

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

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

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

Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

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.

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