Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.

A journey is a fragment of Hell.

I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm in the Western Sahara, I understood Muhammed's dictum, 'A journey is a fragment of Hell.'

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.