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

You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.

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.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.