Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.

Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.

For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.

Travel is an act of humility

Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free.

I think that foreignness is always with you. Indeed, I find California more foreign to me the longer I live here. In thirty years of living here on and off, it hasn't lost anything of foreignness. If anything, it has gained.