It makes me feel like I have more options than just, you know, calling the airlines or calling the travel agent,

When artwork is involved, it's almost assumed that it's going to travel. It's too hot to stay here.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

Two of these trucks will travel nationwide, two of these trucks will travel along the I-5 corridor. I know we'll get tips on these cases.

No camera, no recording device, no laptop, none of this palm pilot nonsense or a cell phone. Paper and pencil, a book, maybe a bilingual dictionary. Anything beyond that (a) can be stolen, and (b) intimidates people you encounter. The more double-A batteries you carry, the more you distance yourself from the people you're writing about.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.