One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.

Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.