It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.")

The courage to dream, the courage to act.

And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist.

Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.