Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

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.

Are you speaking your mind or expressing your feelings?

His story is simple, because simple is always best.

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.

A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself.

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.