Occupation: Film Writer Birth: April 10, 1941
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of a….
There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile..
A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place..
The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space.
Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace..
Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation..
I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The advantage is that people don't know who….
I sought trains; I found passengers..
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketi….
One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours..
All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting..
Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is en….
There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance..
Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery..
Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't..
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing..
I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun..
I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like….
They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter..
Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler..
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 ….