I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books,...

If I could pick an opponent, I would like to travel to Slovakia.

Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously ‘present,’ an unstable...

The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.

Yes,it is remarkable how far a person can travel by sea.

It’s becoming more popular to use your miles for non-travel types of experiences.

Calcutta’s the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

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

You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a cabin attendant to announce, “We have now landed in Lonely Place’s Down-at-Heels Airport,...

For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or...

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a perky tune. I watched the rain beat down on the...

You either get the point of Africa or you don’t. What draws me back year after year is that it’s like seeing the world with the lid off.

It’s hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you’re on a losing one.

There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the...

All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost should seeking a hope when all that I love is at...

The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.

What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to solve the puzzle of our own lives, before it’s too...

It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than hose of people who’d stayed at home.

The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.

The Structure is bigger than the concept.

Until that rainy Sunday at the movies 31 years ago, for me, companionship had been a mandate for life’s good times. After Orca, it became a choice. My trip to the theater helped me to...

New insights from being present are a gift.

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear....

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I could be back in time to light the candles and set the...

Time has become a melding of minutes and months and the feeling of seasons. […] Leon says it is the Bhutan Time Warp and I know what he means. Time does not hurl itself forward...

There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a diaspora of their own.They are the lordly ones! They come in all colors.They can be Christians or Hindus or Muslims or Jews or pagans...

Meeting new people is just remembering faces of God we’ve forgotten.

I had a dream about you. The Yesterday Leaf floated like a pack of feathers in flight. It was traveling north, because that’s the direction of warm tomorrow.

There are million countries which we will visit together.

The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and how to think? and you may begin..

Sunshine is a light.May the sunshine brighten your path of life.

I’ll pretty much try any cheese, but I have found that I prefer young goats and old cows. I don’t like gray areas.

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

There are more places you haven’t heard of then you’re heard of!’ I loved that

Bez te tačke, za koju si vezan, ne bi volio ni drugi svijet, ne bi imao kud da odeš, jer ne bi bio nigdje.

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their native language, and while they writhed, we impaled them, we peppered...

But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.

Travel is such a wonderful experience! Especially when you forget you are traveling. Then you will enjoy whatever you see and do. Those who look into themselves when they travel will not think about what...

So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to...

We believe it will really have a chilling effect on spontaneous travel across the border.

Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.

You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I’m your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears.

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant…

Estudio español, latín y teología, pero desde niño deseaba conocer el mundo y esto era más importante que conocer a Dios y a los pecados de los hombres.

Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished to the ends of the earth, and yet in whatever outlandish corner of...

Not a single night has passed without your thoughts, I think some ppl are not meant to be together physically but what I know for sure is that I have loved a most beautiful soul...

As a traveler, I’ve often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.