When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

Some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it.

The 70s were a wonderful time to be young. I think most young people at that time were pushing the boundaries, asking all sorts of questions of society, of life and of themselves. They were very politicised. It was part of the air that we breathed.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes