Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.

The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.

It's not fashionable but I like to spit out of the window of a moving train.