It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

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?

It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.

The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking... Is Where It's Taking Her.

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

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