“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“Anticipation. In love and travel, getting there is half the fun. The lustful impatience, the passionate daydreams, the nerve-wracking waiting... lovers and travelers are all alike when they find themselves on the brink of a new adventure.”

“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”