The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

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 amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.