People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.

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

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

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

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.

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.