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

I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.