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

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

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.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.