“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”

“Because people fear those who are different. And fear can make people do stupid things.”

“You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.”

“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..”

“The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.”

“My hosts have spread the spectrum: students, farm and construction workers, salesmen and truck drivers, teaches and writers... I've stayed in homes with backyard swimming pools and homes with backyard toilets, ridden with people who needed gas money and others who bought me meals, some who would put the fear of God into me, who whose country-twand talk almost called for an interpreter... but one thing had they in common: the willingness to help a stranger on the road or a weary friend at their door”