A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

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

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

When I'm writing, I like to travel alone. If you really want to find out about a place, you need to be as free as possible to be spontaneous. You also need to be lonely, because loneliness is a great teacher, too.

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

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