J. Maarten Troost Quotes

Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.