Carol

“the Gilded Age—the name given by Mark Twain to the glittering years from the 1870s until around 1900—New York society was personified by two inscrutable consuls,”
― Anderson Cooper, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

“Tonight is about the future You’ve had enough past frankly to last you a lifetime”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“travel was not about rest and relaxation. It was action, exertion, motion, and the built-in delays were longueurs necessitated by the inevitable problem-solving of forward movement: waiting for buses and trains, enduring breakdowns that you tried to make the best of.”
― Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown

“What had I learned? That proctology pretty much describes the experience of traveling from one African city to another, especially the horror cities of urbanized West Africa.”
― Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari