People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out much about yourself.

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