All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.