Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever.

There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.

Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.

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.

The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out much about yourself.