Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.

I believe in free will.

American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.

I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.

Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets.

Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.

I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.