One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

I don't want to be the honored guest. I want to be the invisible person.

I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

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.

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

I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.