I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

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.

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life