There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance.

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.

Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.

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

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

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

In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was taken up by boutique owners (one of the fanciest clothes stores in London is called Che Guevara). There is no faster way of destroying a man or mocking his ideas than making him fashionable. That Che succeeded in influencing dress-designers was part of his tragedy.