I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure..

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus..

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our li….

And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny..

Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is th….

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past.

Paris is always a good idea..

Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that par….

The more you travel, the better you get at it..

Everyone of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go ….

Traveling is a fool's paradise..

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere..

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body..

A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed..

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how go….

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying s….

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time..

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are..

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English..

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever..

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles..