All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.