All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.

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.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

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

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.