To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in whi….

You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from..

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading ….

We just lay on our bellies in the snow, gasping and immobile..

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times..

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all ….

In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport..

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it..

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions..

One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.

I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this we….

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time..

Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time..

Home is not where you live but where they understand you..

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations….

For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of peop….

There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one..

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home..

Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soun….

I know all we're doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin' bullet, slow down. If I don't, I might just lose it, locked u….

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself..