You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

When I'm writing, I like to travel alone. If you really want to find out about a place, you need to be as free as possible to be spontaneous. You also need to be lonely, because loneliness is a great teacher, too.

It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.

I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

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