Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

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.

A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.

All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

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

I hate vacations. I hate them. I have no fun on them. I get nothing done. People sit and relax, but I don't want to relax. I want to see something.