I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

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

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

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

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance.