I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.

If you travel in countries like Morocco, and I say that because I have just come from Morocco, if people are shouting at each other in an argument, violence is not going to follow. That would be just so far removed.

Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings.

Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't be further from the truth.

I'd like to write fiction. Perhaps at some stage.