We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.