If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.
Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.
And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.
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.