“It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.”
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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
