“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”
“The travel writer seeks the world we have lost — the lost valleys of the imagination.”
"Bwana Vistas," Harper’s (August 1985), reprinted in Corruptions of Empire (1988).
“Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun. So I've been told…”
Live at Wembley Stadium DVD (July 1987)
Source: Anonymous reader point out that quote appears on internet from 2015. Rumi, having died in the 1200s, when the first mention of this quote was around 2015.
“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
pg 233
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
Variant: A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger. Travel too far that road and the way is lost.”
Source: The Elfstones of Shannara
Variant: Life is more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
Speech to the UN Economic and Social Council, Geneva, Switzerland (9 July 1965)
