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

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.

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

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.