There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

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

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.