Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.

Good writers touch life often.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.