If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

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.

Alice released a long exhale. "Showtime.

It's hard not to stand in awe and enchantment with the beauty in which nature expresses herself.

Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to probably ain't legal.

What if someone hit us with an EMP, cyber-attack, and dirty bomb all at once? That would be pretty bad.

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.

Before you touch anybody you have to make sure that you are as pure as possible. If you don't purify yourself of all the inner duality, negativity can prevail through the flow of the psyche.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

Releasing the emotional energy and focusing on acceptance dissipates anger and restores balance.

People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.