"... Throughout my writing life, travel has lent a vehicle in which to explore the inner terrain of fears and desires …"

"What no one ever quite gets used to is the brutalizing effect of the wind. The average wind speed at McMurdo is ten m…"

"I am very much a generalist as opposed to a specialist. It's rather unfashionable, but I feel someone's got to be one…"

"... One scholar says Tolstoy tells us to give away our money; Dostoevsky tells us to go to church; Chekhov says "I'm …"

"The travel writer Sara Wheeler prefers to travel alone. If she didn’t, you’d instantly volunteer to be her travelling…"

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."

"The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to…"

"Piety in art—poetry in art—Puseyism in art—let us be careful how we confound them."