“If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.”
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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
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.
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.
