Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Hello Kitty will never speak.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

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

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

You should never hit the snooze button when life gives you a wake up call.

How to build a fire: stay true to your perspective! Then burn.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

If it isn't a clear yes, then it's a clear no.

Yes, it's funny, isn't it? You try to do what's best for the people you love, and you just end up in trouble for your efforts.

It is easier to be grateful for the things we have than to the people who have helped us get them.

Take advantage of the resources around you and the relationships you build!

Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport

You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.