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

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

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.

Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And so the travel writer is doing the traveling for you.

A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.