The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius..

if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where all lapsed lovers of America, e….

I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness..

As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny..

Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation..

I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where the climate is different, th….

Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called i….

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual..

Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal..

the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry..

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like a….

Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably preoccupied with ar….

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible..

The city bursts with ideas as with traffic, a swirl of newness and surprise. Who can be bored in a city? If you are tired of one activity you can try….

I am when the Chinese, who know everything, build a house, they consult the precepts of an ancient science, Feng Shui, which tells them exactly how, ….

There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating tho….

Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness..

I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one sex or another, and that th….

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking tha….

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic..

Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its sli….