A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

Why do 'They' retain absurd distinctions between first and second class? Far more helpful if 'They' divided us into, say, talkers and non-talkers, or farters and non-farters.

I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.

He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garunda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

I get airsick just licking an airmail stamp.

If the airport is overcrowded with long delays, seek peace and calm in the airport chapel, which is usually an oasis of quiet and has plenty of space.

Cruising - if you thought you didn't like people on dry land ...

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveller on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.