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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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