Ella Maillart

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.