I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Hello Kitty will never speak.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

People and organisations should want to be associated with you as a brand. A sign of a depleted and irrelevant brand is unwillingness of your market or peers to associate with you.

The muse is the mystic force, but you are the master.

The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.

My joy will be in serving.