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

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

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

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.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

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.