You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.

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.

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

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

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