Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid contradiction, but it’s also a city of subtle and distorted moods that journalism and film have hitherto mostly failed to capture. Lawrence Osborne Read Quote
Boredom and sexual desire are a potent and explosive combination, and people will certainly risk their lives to exit a grey and boring life. Lawrence Osborne Read Quote
The Gobi is in many ways like the old American West, filled with abandoned hamlets and buildings, traces of disappeared peoples. Across its oceanic blond grass, horses and the black silhouettes of camels move languidly, as if they are the only inhabitants. Ancient Turkic nomads left enigmatic petroglyphs carved into boulders 2,000 years ago. Lawrence Osborne Read Quote
Mongolians are epic drinkers and carousers, and in this respect, they are extremely congenial to my own way of thinking. Lawrence Osborne Read Quote
The best times to visit the Gobi and Three Camel Lodge are June, and September through October. By the beginning of November, it is ferociously cold, while October can swing surreally between warm days and clear, chilly nights and frosty mornings dusted with snow – perfect. Lawrence Osborne Read Quote
At the end of the 18th century, a young British explorer named George Bogle became one of the first Westerners to penetrate the mysterious and reclusive realm of Druk Yul, or ‘Dragon Land.’ Lawrence Osborne Read Quote
There’s something attractive about making people temporarily forget their actual age by taking them out of their normal lives so completely. Doesn’t travel, by its very nature, strive to do this? Lawrence Osborne Read Quote
I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough – it’s a journalistic enterprise, ultimately, even if you are using the memoir as a form. Lawrence Osborne Read Quote
I made the decision that I didn’t want to spend my life in rooms and write about rooms, or else make books that are researched constructs. I think you do have to get out there and live it. Thriller and genre writers seem to understand this. Lawrence Osborne Read Quote
