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

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

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

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

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

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.