It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

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

...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

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