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

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

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.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.