Occupation: Novelist Birth: 1970
There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too dista….
The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with it. And the speed of….
Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't….
As for me... I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare.….
Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurat….
Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle bar….
Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley.
I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chao….
If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a….
You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put the cloc….
Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled..
Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood..
I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working wi….
Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something….
Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some differenc….
Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly..
Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers you….
Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacki….
Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switche….
By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed..
If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all o….