To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music. — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a diaspora of their own. They are the lordly ones! They come in all… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“Certainly Delhi is unimaginably antique, and age is a metaphysic, I suppose. Illustrations of mortality are inescapable there, and do give the place a… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“I accept the idea of helping men, and of being cherished by them. I’ve always had that feeling. If I could have my life… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“Few conversations, at any time of life, are more stimulating, more spontaneous and more genuinely original than those long ridiculous talks we all have,… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“In a Kenya game park once I saw a family of wart-hogs waddling ungainly and in a tremendous hurry across the grass. Contemptuous though… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
