Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.

- Bruce Chatwin

Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.

- Bruce Chatwin

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with stri…

- Bruce Chatwin

Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country:…

- Bruce Chatwin

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.

- Bruce Chatwin

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

- Bruce Chatwin

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

- Bruce Chatwin

For life is a journey through a wilderness

- Bruce Chatwin

A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which …

- Bruce Chatwin