Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

The topography of literature, the fact in fiction, is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road.

Mmm, freshly baked cookies. Even better, the rich, buttery scent had conquered the usual mothball odor.

Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it " or success.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it’s great to be a part of and watch.

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.

Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter to do the former.

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.

I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.