The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

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.

Dance with the Devil

I am ordinary person with extraordinary curiosity.

Nico: With great power, comes the great need to take a nap.

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.

Music has been in our family for generations.

I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.

It's great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn't consider viable employees.

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.