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- If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.
- I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
- I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.
- I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.
- The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of…
- The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place.…
- I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an…
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