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

I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

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.

Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.