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

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

" If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt. "

" You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters! "

" 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. "

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

" During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve. "

" I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in. "

" 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. "

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

" I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do. "

" 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. "

" Of course, in India, I always said, 'Oh yes, I'm married.' "