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

I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.

To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of parallel life. A safari is an expensive experience and it's adjacent to a place where people are having a very tough time.

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

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

Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.