It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.