It's not fashionable but I like to spit out of the window of a moving train.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

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

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.

The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.