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
My job is to be a spokesman – the spokesman, I suppose – for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues. – Dee Dee Myers
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that. – Nicholas D. Kristof
You had to make a camera look like its traveling at 300 mph, but you couldnt make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering. – John Dykstra
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. – Robert Burton
