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 tr….

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it..

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which th….

I need a six month vacation twice a year..

It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places..

In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark..

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time….

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat..

The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling ….

It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It ….

When people ask me how I develop recipes, I have to respond: "travelling, eating, watching, experimenting, and constantly asking myself: 'Do I want t….

A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is ad….

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got ….

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrill….

And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach..

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience..

All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel.

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time..

Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and ….

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the ….

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehens….