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" Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive. "

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" 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 agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day. "

" 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 do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. "

" The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process. "

" 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. "

" Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty land. Dominated by the harsh, almost uninhabited Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, the region is known only to Australian Aborigines, a handful of white settlers, and the few travelers who motor across it. "

" People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of. "

" I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect. "

" 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. "

" I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space. "

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

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

" As we've lost this idea of pilgrimage, we've lost this idea of human beings walking for a very, very long time. It does change you. "

" I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous. "

" If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they're of journeys. Whether it's 'Don Quixote' or 'Ulysses,' there's always this sense of a quest - of a person going away to be tested, and coming back. "