A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

I discovered in nature the non utilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception.

He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.

Let us all choose to become citizens of humanity rather than citizens of hate

Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

I argue with myself, get mad at myself, throw myself around the room and then apologize to myself.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.

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