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.

I don't think that I can be settled and I don't think that I would ever want to be.

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.

I believe in free will.

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.

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.