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

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.

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

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.

And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen.