All Quotes

When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba. ”

My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid. ”

It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he. ”

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. ”

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find. ”

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t. ”

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. ”

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. ”

I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal. ”

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place. ”