We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.

Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?