I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

When I had money in the past I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

Some minds improve by travel others rather resemble copper wire or brass which get the narrower by going farther.

Just to travel is rather boring but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

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.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

If I hold back I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes than holding back all the time.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet playing video games is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.