“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.”

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

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

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

“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?”

“You know those moments, whether you’re in them or not, you feel something more than what you intended to feel, what you wanted to feel.”

“Do you think it will rain?Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man?No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.”