Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation..

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc….

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, ….

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read..

Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders le….

There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance..

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….

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler..

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the….

Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, ….

You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over..

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think….

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation..

Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions..

There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a co….

To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of parallel life. A safari is an expensive experien….

Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone….

The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive..

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution..