What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

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

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.