We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience. I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Travellers never think that THEY are the foreigners.
City Aphorisms, Seventeenth Selection , New York, 1996. Travelling is like flirting with life. Off the Rails, ch. The less one knows. When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.