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

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

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

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.