You cannot travel within and stand still without.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

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, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

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.