I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.
Charlize Theron
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of... →
Paul Theroux
What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you... →
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little... →
What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you... →
I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of... →
Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.
Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.
A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way... →