Paul Fussell

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of judgement.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally