Accommodation

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

The world is not in your books and maps; it’s out there.

Cover the earth before it covers you.

Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.

Oh, the places you’ll go.

The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

I travel because I’d rather look back at my life, saying ‘I can’t believe I did that’ instead of ‘if only I had’.