While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

Maybe the number of travelers aren't as high, but the money spent is way up. The travelers are staying longer and spending more money. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say it's very positive.

I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements, which seemed at any moment capable of falling together, closing this alleyway under indifferent stars like a seam.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.