My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister.

I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate.