To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution. – Jo Coudert, Advice From A Failure (Thanks, Elizabeth!)
[S]o you plant your own garden and nourish your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers…. – Veronica Shoffstall, “After a While,” as posted in Dear Abby
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldnt say that Im a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. – Paul Theroux
Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent. – Robert Ballard