Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world.