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I guess, like most foreigners, when you're away, you see your own culture being even more strange. But where I come from and my roots mean a lot. I miss my family and my friends. Something I've realized as I've been traveling is that it's more about the actual people than the actual place.

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

I'm always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.

I don't travel much; I just stay at home and imagine weird places.

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really just like to enjoy life.