“He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.”

“Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.”

“When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.”

“Twenty years from now, when space travel is likely to become mundane like airline travel today, we don't want to be buying travel tickets on other people's space vehicles.”

“It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.”

“A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.”

“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”

“[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.”

“This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.”

“My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.”