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

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

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

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.

Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.