The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

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.

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

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.

I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.