Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.