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

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

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

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.