There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.

[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.

The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.

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.

Only photograph what you love.

All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.