„Das Ende der alten Ordnung kommt nicht, weil sich die Volksmassen gegen sie erheben, sondern weil die herrschenden Eliten sie nicht mehr verteidigen wollen.“

„Komm endlich zu Willen (…)“

„One of the pleasures of Argentina – it had also been one in Costa Rica – was that one could be wholly anonymous. The faces...

„Im Grunde wissen weder die Meuterer, noch die Verteidiger, was sie tun, weil sie keinen Überblick über die Situation haben und deshalb panisch, ohne Sinn...

(…) but Wolfgang was the embodiment of the maxim I had devised earlier in this trip: it is the raggedest traveller who has the most...

„We were still at 12,000 feet and travelling across a gaunt moonscape of dry rocks and empty craters. Alcohol worsens the symptoms of altitude sickness;...

„Few great cities in the world look more plundered and bankrupt than Lima. (…) Lima – epitomizing Peru – was a glum example of obnoxious...

„(…) and I decided that no railway journey on earth can be so aptly described as going on ad nauseam.“