Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.
— Jan Morris
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
