...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

It's not fashionable but I like to spit out of the window of a moving train.

There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

One of the upsides of tourism is that people begin to take themselves a little more seriously (and think their) culture is worth something. So rather than disparaging the local culture, they vitalize it.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.