The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson’s on the main drag into maturity. - Paul Theroux

The trouble with cameras is that people see them a mile away.

Assigning human personalities to animals is the chief trait of the pet owner—the doting dog-lover with his baby talk, the smug stay-at-home with a fat lump of fur on her lap who says, "Me, I'm a cat person," and the granny who puts her nose against the tin cage and makes kissing noises at her parakeet. Their affection is often tinged with a sense of superiority. Deer and duck hunters never talk this way about their prey, though big game hunters— Hemingway is the classic example — often sentimentalize the creatures they blow to bits and then lovingly stuff to hang on the wall.

You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.