In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

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

Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.

To ENSURE greater success, celebrate your progess daily.

You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever.

Let's face it, there's no point in running away. I will find that person myself and I will change Saet Byul's fate

In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.