The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

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.

She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

Good wins in the end because evil is a self-destructive, cannibalistic force that Inevitably engorges upon itself.

Life has a purpose and that is to be happy, and happiness is the fruits of our love and labor.

Its easy to find others in pitch darkness, but to find your own self in light is hardest task

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Eeew, I'd be a little uncomfortable Googling myself. People sit there - and Google themselves? That's kind of weird.

It's a lot of talent sitting in suits.

Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?" I didn't say anything.

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist.

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.