Able Quote by Don DeLillo

“TO BE A TOURIST is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to…

— Don DeLillo

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

— Don DeLillo

“I began to think of myself as a perennial tourist. There was something agreeable about this. To be a tourist is to escape accountability.…

— Don DeLillo

The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with it. And…

— Alex Garland

“The distinction often seems precarious. Both traveler and tourist are, by definition, separate from their environment. We like to think that the role we…

— Richard Todd

“To become a tourist assumes a certain vulnerability, to wear the wrong shoes and not know the right times for meals. To drive too…

— Edmond Manning

If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You…

— Annie Lennox

A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon…

— Michael Lewis

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two…

— Tahir Shah

To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as…

— David Foster Wallace

“To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed…

— David Foster Wallace

I'm not a good tourist, I don't like tourism.

— Joe Sacco