#travel

"I want to go to Martha’s Vineyard. I have an aunt named Martha. And an uncle by that name. Neither one is related to me."

"I drift like a cloud,Across these venerable eastern lands,A journey of unfathomable distances,An endless scroll of experiences...Lady Zhejiang here we must part,For the next province awaits my embrace.Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East,Where do you go?"

"88. People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris."

"I may be going nowhere, but what a ride."

"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

"Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head."

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life"

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

"She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water."

"A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding."

"To travel is to live."

"Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else."

"Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever."

"Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)"

"Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home."

"There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world."

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

"No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider."

"We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people"