“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 travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.”

“I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.”

“Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.”

“Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.”

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.”

“We must travel in the direction of our fear.”

“I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.”

“My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.”

“Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.”