“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World This quote stopped me in my tracks this week. I’m a lover of Huxley’s works and of course Brave New World is a classic. I’m...

"What is a travel book? For me it is the story of what happened to one person in a particular place, and nothing more than that; it does not contain hotel and highway information, lists of useful phrases, statistics, or hints as to what kind of clothing is to be needed by the intending visitor....

"My own policy is to try to be as non-judgmental about another culture as I can while I'm there. You know, "when in Rome..." and all that. But I'm not a complete relativist either. Aldous Huxley once said that when one is living in a developed secular country, one longs to live in a spiritual...