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.

There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.

The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.

I am happy being what I am.