It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.