It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.

Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.