My greatest inspiration is memory.

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.

My father thrives on fear. You know that prayer If I should die before I wake? I had sheets that said that!

I'm very happy and excited to be a member of the Boston Red Sox.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.