Quotes by Geoff Dyer

The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly decent the world over. Given the disparity of income and wealth, its amazing not just that you dont get robbed everywhere - its amazing you dont get eaten.

It doesnt require much thought for one to realise that any travel book worthy of the name has to be a departure from the standard idea of the form.

I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as Ive said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, youre spending money.