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The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.

Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.