Zanesh Catkin

“Italics are like a rash -- you never know whether to ignore them entirely or whether the more you attention you give the more they spread.”

“If a book falls open in a library and no one sees it, is it still writing? Or is it simply a page bearing abstract markings?”

“Some travel to find themselves—I was travelling to get lost.”

“Travel broadens the mind. Travel shrinks the wallet. Travel shrivels the testicles.”

“She had her head in a book. Like me she preferred reading about travel to actually traveling; it was so much more comfortable.”