Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.