Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.

There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.