The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

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.

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

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

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

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.

Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.