No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.

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

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.

Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.

Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.