| Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye. |
| There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. |
| Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. |
| I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. |
| Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage. |
| Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. |
| And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. |
| To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. |
| The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. |
| It is not down in any map; true places never are. |