Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.