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Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

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

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

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

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

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested...

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

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

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a...

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

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about...

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