You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.

The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space

To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of parallel life. A safari is an expensive experience and it's adjacent to a place where people are having a very tough time.

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

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