Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.

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

All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.