Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel...
A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere travels on the ground...
Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation and travel so...
Tourists don't know where they've been travelers don't know where they're...
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central...
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I...
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the...
I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it...
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in...
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a...
I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm...
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is...
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They...
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
As a reward for their efforts however those early Christians were beaten...
I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether...