On the road, people take you at face value

"If you travel, you escape being labeled with class stereotypes. I come from a very middle-class family of lawyers and architects. Travel was an immense relief -- it got rid of the pressure from above and from below. If you're out on the road, people have to take you at face value."
--Bruce Chatwin, interview with Michael Ignatieff in Granta 21, Spring 1987