Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The advantage is that people don't know who I am. I meet people casually and they're not doing me a big favor because I'm going to write something.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.