“There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.”

“I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.”

“If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.”

“You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.”

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

“For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.”

“Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.”

“Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didn't see the point - although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasn't devoted to it.”

“For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.”