“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.”

“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”

“...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.”

“Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.”

“Why travel to the Moon or Mars if we only continue our wars there with Russia or China or Africa? Why build rockets at all? For fun? For adventure? Or is this the same process that sends the salmons back upstream year after year to spawn and die - a subliminal urge in mankind to spread, in self-preservation, to the stars? Are we then secretly fearful that one day the sun might freeze and the the earth grow cold or the sun explode in a terrific thermal cataclysm and burn down our house of cards?”

“Someone who loved night arrivals and dark departures, for the hell, the fun, the death of it?”

“I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.”