"But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I
don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of
anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a
country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are
five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most
rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a
street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a
series of interesting guesses."