Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

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

And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.