Occupation: Film Writer Birth: April 10, 1941
In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark..
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions..
It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places..
Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor..
It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians..
Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death..
I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple..
A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form..
For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer..
I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom..
travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts..
I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when….
There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how p….
The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, ….
A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time….
I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read..
I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler..
Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive..
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….
The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given..
He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone..