I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

I'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get therewithout help and nosy proclivities.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.

Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

Le sabordage de l'âme devrait être enseigné dans les écoles de marine".Le Voyageur de l'inquiétude

And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems.

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.

Like seasonless fowl we migrate…from East Coast to West Coastand back and forth again,for a job,for a friend,for a change,for a kick.

We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.