Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

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

Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.

A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.

There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated, where money has no value, and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the fewest possessions is the freest. Thoreau was right.