Occupation: Film Writer Birth: April 10, 1941
I am happy being what I am..
Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel..
In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed..
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 h….
What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry..
You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one..
Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds….
Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders le….
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked wor….
Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And so the travel writer is doing the travel….
The measure of civilized behavior is compassion..
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going..
In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was ta….
My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it..
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstance….
Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading..
I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better..
Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life.
You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back..
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation..
Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. I….