I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

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

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

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

When you travel you realize how small you are. You need to be humble. You can't be a big, brash American. You think you have problems. You leave the States and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you. They have nothing to eat, they have no water, they have no shelter, they have a terrible government. So you realize we complain about the government, we complain about food, whatever it is, and go somewhere else and you think, "Now I realize," you say, "Why people want to come to America."