Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

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

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

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

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

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.