Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

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

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.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.