Things Without Defense: Insects, Kittens,

A Guide Book Is Addressed To Those Who Plan To Follow The Traveler, Doing What He Has Done, But More Selectively. A Travel Book, In Its Purest, Is Addressed To Those Who Do Not Plan To Follow The Traveler At All, But Who Require The Exotic Or Comic Anomalies, Wonders And Scandals Of The Literary Form Romance Which Their Own Place Or Time Cannot Entirely Supply.

The Simple Is Carefully Shunned By Those Who Labour To Seem What They Would Be.

If I Didn't Have Writing, I'd Be Running Down The Street Hurling Grenades In People's Faces.

Tourism Requires That You See Conventional Things, And That You See Them In A Conventional Way.

Travel At Its Truest Is Thus An Ironic Experience, And The Best Travellers . . . Seem To Be Those Able To Hold Two Or Three Inconsistent Ideas In Their Minds At The Same Time, Or Able To Regard Themselves As At Once Serious Persons And Clowns.