Have Pen, Will Travel Quotes

“Beijing has organised for itself the best of all three worlds: First World armed power, Second World economic strength and Third World handouts.”
― M.J. Akbar, Have Pen, Will Travel

“Travel continues to broaden the mind and slim the wallet.”
― M.J. Akbar, Have Pen, Will Travel: Observations of a Globetrotter

“London is often confused with England. The English also live in London but they are only one of the communities which inhabit a true world city.”
― M.J. Akbar, Have Pen, Will Travel: Observations of a Globetrotter

“The People’s Republic of China loses its republican sheen when it comes to territory and turns imperial even if it cannot always get imperious.”
― M.J. Akbar, Have Pen, Will Travel

“John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath, a huge indictment of materialism published in the thirties, is the sleeper success of publishing. In 1959 Steinbeck wrote to his friend Adlai Stevenson, the great icon of liberals, ‘If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick.”
― M.J. Akbar, Have Pen, Will Travel