Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

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.

We are therefore constantly on the road, straying from one mental image to the next, and identify with these images, and derive our identity from the images.

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

I have three dogs and a cockatoo.

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don’t like looking at them so much. There’s a sort of pretty thing about me.

Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees.

Truth, like climate, is common property.

You have to bounce in life with joy. Your strength lies in your smiles and your songs.

When Christ becomes our focal point, we become everything we are meant to be-a servant to the glory of the King of all kings.

I had the '80s hair and braces and a 6-3 frame as a 16-year-old.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it