What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country … we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits … this is why we should no...
I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity te...
After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn...
Travel and you will see them, sit and they will come to you.
Even light takes a decade to travel ten light-years.
If you want to travel fast use the old roads.
You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.
Beneath it all I kept faith with Ithaca, travelled, Travelled and travelled, Suffering much, enjoying a little; Met strange people singing New myths; made myths myself. But this lion of the sea Salt-maned, scaly, wondrous of tail, Touched with power,...
I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends. I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness . . .
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the un...
Now imagine that the human race had the means to put human settlers on all of these world using an affordable, sophisticated, safe drive that allows for speedy space travel across light-years of space. I'm not talking about a simply FTL drive, ladies...
I've dated people where we traveled horribly together, and if one thing went wrong, it was horrible for them. Then I've been fortunate enough to have great traveling experiences where everything lined up and even when things went wrong, you just laug...
I believe the experiences reported in this book are reproducible by anyone who wishes to try. I went to Africa. You can go to Africa. You may have trouble arranging the time or the money, but everybody has trouble arranging something. I believe you c...
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
I do not wish to travel around the world. I already have the world trying to travel around me.
End of a dream is the beginning of a new dream; end of a travel is the beginning of a new travel. End means beginning!
You cannot travel to the known; because all travels are towards the future and the future is unknown!
One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
