To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

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

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity.If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates.

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

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

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