Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way.

After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.

Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.

One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?

Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.