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.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

I have a really good life and I really like it.

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

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 would never tell anybody to get a divorce.