The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

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