“Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.”
“The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knowsIs just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes”
“I would like to travel and wander and see the soul of the world and myself.”
“Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.”
“So in the streets of Calcutta I sometimes imagine myself a foreigner, and only then do I discover how much is to be seen, which is lost so long as its full value in attention is not paid. It is the hunger to really see which drives people to travel to strange places.”
“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”