"When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home."

"A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing."

"When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books."

"The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do."

"India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation."

"The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions."

"I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like flowers."

"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."