Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world.

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.