What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

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

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

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.

Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

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

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.