Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

Living in sterile man-made environments that are disconnected from nature should be expected to lead to sickness.

I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.

The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.

I mean a lot of people think Im 19. I get carded all the time and no one think Im legal, like in the bedroom

When I awake Yesterday is far away When I awake I don't recall your name, my only friend.

The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.

Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all.

I can't deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.