I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place

I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.