One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.

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.

It would be narrowness to suppose that an artist can only care for the impressions of those who know the methods of his art as well as feel its effects. Art works for all whom it can touch.

Serving my generation with excellence will mean in turn, my generation can lead with excellence.

I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces.

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

Even an organized person has days that aren't efficient and well-managed.

Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

The biggest Russian problem - not all Russian jerks have moved to the US and UK yet.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen.