I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.

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 has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.