"The Great Railway Bazaar" Quotes

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life.

It is not possible to see the Great Wall of China from the moon with the naked eye.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.

I sought trains; I found passengers.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise'.

I had been trying to get somewhere I couldn't get to and it had made me manic.

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

The railway bazaar was a fantastic place (...) an extraordinary conglomeration of human beings at its most intense.