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

- Jan Morris

The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

- Jan Morris

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

- Jan Morris

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

- Jan Morris

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

- Jan Morris

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…

- Jan Morris

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

- Jan Morris

I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentia…

- Jan Morris

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…

- Jan Morris