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"Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society."
"He who will travel far spares his steed."
"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel."
"I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home."
"Traveler's heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire."
"Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged."
"I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like."
"Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years."
"Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither."
"If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey."
"When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home."
"For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much."
"For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port."
"I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are."
"How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone."
"I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time."
"Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan."
"The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile."
"Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion."
"He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life."
