Status Updates From Un posto piccolo

“Most natives are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go—so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they envy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.”

"I cannot tell you how angry it makes me to hear people from North America tell me how much they love England, how beautiful England is with its traditions [...] but what I see is the millions of people—of whom I am just one—made orphans. No motherland, no fatherland, no gods,[...] no tongue. For isn't it odd: that the only language I have in which to speak of this crime is the language of the criminal."