Jim O'Donnell

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”
― Paul Theroux

“Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.”
― Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines

“travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.”
― Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia

“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.”
― Ray Bradbury