The Best American Travel Writing 2014 Quotes

“Not at Lehman Brothers, which collapsed in 2008, and not on Wall Street; Greece was where the fire broke out. One heard the word contamination again and again, but this time it was no imperial cultural contamination, no creeping process of civilization. This time the crisis was a contagion: debts and obligations that would never be repaid, a gradual deterioration of the financial immune system.”
― Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2014: A Collection Guest Edited by Paul Theroux—Wonder, Humor, Exhilaration

“I will never say no to viewing my friends’ vacation photos, primarily because one of our tacit promises when we travel is that we’ll bring back a good story—of our heightened state of living and the exaggerated adventures that befell us—and hope to let others live vicariously through it.”
― Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2014: A Collection Guest Edited by Paul Theroux—Wonder, Humor, Exhilaration

“What gives value to travel is fear.”
― Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2014: A Collection Guest Edited by Paul Theroux—Wonder, Humor, Exhilaration

“No one who is learning should ever feel stupid,”
― Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2014: A Collection Guest Edited by Paul Theroux—Wonder, Humor, Exhilaration

“Efficiency is a capitalist term that assumes one has the goal of achieving a certain level of productivity.”
― Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2014: A Collection Guest Edited by Paul Theroux—Wonder, Humor, Exhilaration