“One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.”
“Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.”
“One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.”
“Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.”
“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
“But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist.”