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

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

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

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 experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.