The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.

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.

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth.

Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done...

I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are in there and that history that the writers have done such a great job at forming.

When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.

Do you think it's possible to change something in humanity, not risking? If someone tries to change something and is not risking, it probably means he's not changing anything.

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.