Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.

I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)

Traveling is the great true love of my life... I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby - I just don't care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it's mine. Because it looks exactly like me.

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.