If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.

- Paul Fussell

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the travel…

- Paul Fussell

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

- Paul Fussell

All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be r…

- Paul Fussell

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

- Paul Fussell

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in the…

- Paul Fussell

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

- Paul Fussell

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

- Paul Fussell

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in th…

- Paul Fussell