Travel is only glamorous in retrospect..

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume..

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

When I'm writing, I like to travel alone. If you really want to find out about a place, you need to be as free as possible to be spontaneous. You als….

The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing..

Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence..

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing..

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience..

In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in ….

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in..

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home..

The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may….

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness..

A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler. Nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than troubl….

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely..

There's always a way if you're not in a hurry..

The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other pe….

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my ….

Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone..