 Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. |
| Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves. |
| There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. |
| Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. |
| Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. |
| It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. |
| Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. |
| The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. |
| Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. |
| I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better. |
| Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. |
| You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. |
| The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume. |
| The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. |
| Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace. |
