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

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

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

In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.