travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

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

To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of parallel life. A safari is an expensive experience and it's adjacent to a place where people are having a very tough time.

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.