Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived.

I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.

There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.

The passion for travelling is, I believe, instinctive in some natures. We have seen men persevere in their enterprises against the most formidable obstacles; and, without means or friends, and even...

Somewhere along the dust-choked Guatemalan road between... and... I confirmed that I preferred traveling around the slow, bone-rattling way: by bus, with ordinary people. The bus we were riding in had...

Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.

Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.

It was as if I was right there with Magellan, following every curve of his pen as he wrote down his words to his beloved ones confiding his secret. I had become the ink, and the tip was tattooing my...

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why...

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...

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see.

For someone who likes to get around as much as I do, I really travel quite badly. Planes frighten me, boats bore me, trains make me dirty, cars make me car-sick. And practically nothing can equal the...

I wish I were rich enough to endow a prize for the sensible traveler: £10,000 for the first man to over Marco Polo's outward route, reading three fresh books a week, and another £10,000 if he drinks...

The idea and experience of travel can mean many things: it involves movement of some kind, sometimes through unknown places, at other times just between home and the world. Journeys can also be...

From the day I began traveling, I understood that truths were lies and lies were truths.

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

To travel is to see the world as it is.

A hot, dry breeze greeted the Swensen sisters and their mother when they emerged from the air-conditioned interior of McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.

I was much older now, settled in a little coastal town called Cabrer, which ironically means 'go away'. It hadn't been spoiled by tourists yet, so maybe the name had some kind of mojo that kept them...

Travel is much more rewarding when it ceases to be about reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living our life.

On a plane I like to be left to myself, as the clouds and the sky and drone of the motor all make me feel dreamy, and dreams are a solo enterprise.

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it.

I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don't you think?

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

We could leave the country if you want. Live in Spain, Italy, wherever you like, spend our days eating mangoes in the sun. Sleep late, play Scrabble, flip through books aimlessly, swim in the ocean.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become...