Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.

In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

Every road i traveled led back to you

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I'm alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it.