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

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

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

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

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

The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car, and the certain knowledge that neither of us would see each other again.

The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world. We have a large population. We have challenges. We have an indigenous population.