Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.

Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.