Jim O'Donnell

“To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe”
― Bruce Chatwin

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

“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

“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”
― Paul Theroux