I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

I've always traveled as a kid my parents moved me around a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid living in different countries.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages know countries know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse he may learn to enjoy it.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

To the lover of wilderness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.