Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.

I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

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

Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.

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