As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?

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

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

I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.

When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.