The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.

- Richard Halliburton

No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I'll be able to die happy…

- Richard Halliburton

We are born strangers in a strange land, and remain so. Travel simply reminds us of this essential truth. The transmission of a powerful story, one h…

- Richard Halliburton

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the fart…

- Richard Halliburton

Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going…

- Richard Halliburton

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

- Richard Halliburton