travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.

A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.