I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.

I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

Mr. Trump doesn't radiate many of the qualities I respect. But what do I know? I've never met Trump. I know he's savvy enough to change his tune according to his audience and I don't know very much at all about how government works.

Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.

Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.