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"The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you're holding a pen and the other guy's holding a sword."

"The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore."

"In real life, the big things and the little things are inextricably mixed up together, so in Libya at one moment, one worried because one's native boots were full of holes, and at the next, perhaps, o..."

"The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan...."

"We rode through a three-thousand-year-old country, saw the ruined capital of the Queen of Sheba and the underground red-rock city of Lalibela, fraternized with a tribe of leaden-skinned troglogytes li..."

"The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small d..."

"It may be easier to believe that we remain lean because we're virtuous and we get fat because we're not, but the evidence simply says otherwise. Virtue has little more to with our weight than our heig..."

"If originality is a “sense of novelty and freshness” then, in the act of constructing ourselves, originality is not the goal. We construct a self-portrait, relying on existing objects – books, quotes ..."

"The man who has done his level best…is a success, even though the world write him down a failure."

"In any story where solutions to mysteries are found, there should always be at least one mystery which remains unsolved."