Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did now know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places. - Calvino

Home, a place of entire unreserve; life's undress rehearsal, its back-room, its dressing-room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing. - Stowe

Vulgar of manner, overfed, overdressed and underbred; heartless, godless, hell's delight, rude by day and lewd by night, a squirming herd in Mammon's mesh, a wilderness of human flesh; New York, thy name's delirium. - Newton