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" At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. "

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" There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose. "

" I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy. "

" I've chosen difficult men. But then I'm sure they'd say they'd chosen a difficult woman. "

" I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity. "

" In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj. "

" After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight. "

" Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing. "

" These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from. "

" My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic. "

" My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string. "

" When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth. "

" You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them. "

" By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves. "

" That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world. "

" The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel. "

" The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing. "

" You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm. "

" Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore. "

" In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today. "

" When 'Tracks' first came out, I was courted by Sydney Pollack. I had lunch with him, and he opened the conversation with, 'Honey, you ain't gonna like what I'm gonna do to your book.' I really liked him, but I turned him down, because - well, I was stupid. I also turned down a great deal of money. "

" I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film. "

" As you get older, you do just get tired. "

" The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment. "

" That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces. "

" Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire. "

" I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. "

" The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. "

" Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning. "

" The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city. "

" It is always interesting being on films sets - I have done it before with other actor friends - and I just find it fascinating. I just love that collaborative film family that develops around a project. "