"Once you turn forty...the whole world is water off a duck’s back. Once you turn forty you realize that life is there …"

"The best way to learn was by looking, to become articulate in the language of sight. The eye could learn to look afte…"

"This book is a ripped, by no mean reliable map of some of the landscapes that make up a particular phase of my life. …"

"When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—a…"

"I was constantly surprised by how much people didn’t know. That’s one of the things about traveling, one of the thing…"

"Virility of one kind or another is so important if you are to feel like a man. You have to be able to perform stunts.…"

"They made two thousand years ago seem like yesterday, and yesterday look like today, just as today would, in time, lo…"

"Dave was committed to making it a truly memorable weekend in the sense that he would remember nothing whatsoever abou…"

"The idea is to generate paperwork. The word could hardly be more apt. Paper is work. Paper is the big employer. Someo…"

"I felt I could no longer take the roller-coaster of emotions of travel, its surges of exaltation, its troughs of desp…"