My greatest inspiration is memory.

All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.

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

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.