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.

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

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

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 are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.