travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.
It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.
One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is.
a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
... I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it.