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

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

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 of one at the moment.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

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

All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.

IntoxicatedWith the madnessI'm in love withMy sadnessBullshit beggars, enchanted kingdomFashion victims through their charcoaled teeth

Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.

Beautiful toes are an addition to a woman’s appearance.

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.

Love is about all the changes you make, and not just three small words

Suddenly it was gone. I'd lost more than my voice and my career. I'd lost my best friend.

Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book...

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.