Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals. – Gordon W. Allport
I wouldn’t say that I’m a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. – Paul Theroux
I love ‘Trading Places,’ but ‘Coming to America’ has one of the things I like to do – I like the multiple characters. – Eddie Murphy
It’s weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it’s just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it’s a lot more emotionally raw. – Cory Doctorow
Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the various places I visit. – Michael Dirda
I’d love to be able to multiply because then I could be in lots of different places at once. – Danielle Panabaker
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods. – Margaret Chase Smith
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed. – John Tillotson
The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation. – Jose Eduardo dos Santos
In 2007, I did a horseback trip across part of central Mongolia with my 13-year-old son – we encountered Marco Polo at all these historical places where Mongolian nomads would reference his accounts and his relationship with Kublai Khan. – John Fusco
Oddly, I’d been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them homes-away-from-home. But there can be dark corners in familiar places. – Lisa Kristine
They sent me to these places to get the weight off. The diets never worked; the diets actually made it worse. – Lisa Whelchel
If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on. – John Turturro
If the Pacific took Nauru, it’d wash away one of the strangest and most troubled places on Earth. – Johnny Colt
I think most writers’ houses are disappointing. What’s much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about. – Joseph Kanon
