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.

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

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.

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.

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

The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be.