I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

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.

Like a phoenix rising through the fire, my Robbie, my Tesoro rises forward, and I hope and pray that he can take him out.

Connectivity becomes a craving.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.

Dreams don't work unless you do

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

Have you ever seen The Goodbye Girl? Don’t watch it if you still want to enjoy romantic comedies. It makes every movie ever made starring Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock lash itself in shame.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!