Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And so the travel writer is doing the traveling for you.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

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.

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

Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever.

Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.