Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.

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