The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

I am happy being what I am.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.

The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world. We have a large population. We have challenges. We have an indigenous population.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.