“ Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice! Mark Twain
“ Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse. Roman Payne
“ We—all of us—want to feel special. We want to feel the glory that shines on us when we reach beyond our boundaries to grab at something greater, to live a heroic life, if only for a day or a week or a… J.E. Leigh
“ It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible. Frances Mayes
“ You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a cabin attendant to announce, "We have now landed in Lonely Place's Down-at-Heels Airpo… Pico Iyer
“ I like the idea that when I die, I will have a long sit-down chat withGod and get answers to all my questions. For example, those apple coresthat I threw out of car windows when I was a child—did any… Kristine K. Stevens
“ A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being in the world. A tourist simply hops from one tourist highpoint… Roxanne Reid
“ It is a place that 'grows upon you' every day. There seems to be always something to find out in it. There are the most extraordinary alleys and by-ways to walk about in. You can lose your way (what a… Charles Dickens
“ As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed wit… Gerry Abbey
“ There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world. Gerry Abbey
“ My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking. Gerry Abbey
“ Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer! Gerry Abbey
“ I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself. Gerry Abbey
“ And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide. Gerry Abbey
“ Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken,as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But looking at maps is much more than an act of aesthetic replacement. Anyone… Judith Schalansky
“ When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world. Lailah Gifty Akita
