I did not share their joy or feel very kindly toward any of them,
I decided that travel was flight and pursuit in equal parts,
Colonialism oppressed and subverted Africans and remade them as scavengers, pleaders, and servants
And then there are the laziest and most presumptuous of people, those who can read but who don’t bother, who live in the smuggest ignorance and seem to me dangerous.
A little farther on, he said, What do you think of India? It’s a hard question, I said. I wanted to tell him about the children I had seen that morning pathetically raiding the leftovers of my breakfa...
The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unus...
When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.
Went by back roads, past pines, swamps, shacks, the small towns of Lorman and Fayette, a school flying a Confederate flag, and down one road on which for some miles there were large lettered signs wit...
We walk through ourselves, Stephen Dedalus says in Ulysses, summing up the travel experience, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting o...
The idea for elephant-back safaris was initially that of the photographer, socialite, and Africa hand Peter Beard, who suggested to Moore in the 1980s that riding elephants through the bush was unprec...
The happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance is not the works of Shakespeare (as Buck Mulligan says) but the Holy Bible.
The dubious achievement in travel these days is enduring the persistent nuisance of a succession of airports in order to arrive at a distant place for a brief interlude of the exotic, maintaining the...
That seemed to be the theme in the Deep South: kindness, generosity, a welcome.
Most people come to Africa to see large or outlandish animals in the wild, while some others — the new gang — the gang of virtue — make the visit to tell Africans how to improve their lives. And many...
In one case, at a meeting at Alpha Gamma Delta, active sorority members . . . began standing up to voice support for the [black] recruit and challenge alumnae decisions. The entire house wanted this g...
But so little has changed. This is practically the same country I left thirty-five years ago. Maybe worse. The government doesn’t even care enough to help you.’ This was too broad a subject. She said...
Borges, who said, Defeat has a dignity which noisy victory does not deserve.
An aimless joy is a pure joy, I said, quoting Yeats.
In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.
If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.