“Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.”
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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
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.
The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.
