Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.

A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.

The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.

Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too.

Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.

The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.