My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.
My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.
I'm not for the parties. I'm for Texas.
Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution.
Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart, and... both of them were independents, by the way.
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship