Occupation: Film Writer Birth: April 10, 1941
Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death..
Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence..
Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading..
Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ign….
Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you….
Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control..
The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning..
The measure of civilized behavior is compassion..
The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins..
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With ….
I hate vacations. I hate them. I have no fun on them. I get nothing done. People sit and relax, but I don't want to relax. I want to see something..
There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable..
In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark..
Is there any point in going across the world to eat something or buy something or watch people squatting among their ruins? Travel is a state of mind….
A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time, having a miserable time, ev….
All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people..
If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think..
It's not fashionable but I like to spit out of the window of a moving train..
Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a s….
Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life.
I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple..