There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.

No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.

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

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.