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

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

A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.

My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

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.

Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a happy book. That's a book you say, well, I don't need that. I want a life lesson. I want to find out - I want a journey that reflects my life.

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.