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.

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

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

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.

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

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