I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

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

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.