Most people, brought much more than this when they traveled. Perhaps because they were insecure, and needed to surround themselves with familiar things, or to feel that they had many choices to make each day when they dressed, so they didn't have to be so frightened or feel so powerless. Obviously that was not Hunahpuh's problem. He apparently never felt fear at all, or perhaps never regarded himself as a stranger. How remarkable it would be to feel at home in any place. I wish I had that gift

Wreaking blood and carnage in the normal European Christian manner?

She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or p…

What I hypocrite I am. To pretend that my motives are pure

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

'What the hell do I want to go to a place like Mombassa?... I just see myself in a pot of boiling water with all these natives dancing around me.'

[In an interview] 'The snail lives the way I like to live; he carries his own home with him.'