"You are simply not lonely enough when you travel with companions… Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen." --Jonathan Raban, Driving Home: An American Journey (2011)

"Old travelers grumpily complain that travel is now dead and that the world is a suburb. They are quite wrong. Lulled by familiar resemblances between all the unimportant things, they meet the brute differences in everything of importance." --Jonathan Raban, quoted in the introduction to The Best Travel Writing 2010