When I was young I did not know there qere people who traveled all over the world and wrote about their adventures and got paid to do it. That's why, at the age of fifteen, I thought I was going to starve.

I wasn't actually hungry at the time. I lived in a smal town just outside Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and got plenty to eat, but the outlook was bleak. I knew that soon I'd graduate from high school, then college, then look for a job.