Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

He left to do whatever editors do.

The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it.

It was so bad, it was worth more than we paid.

Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't often see a scientist do: he shivered.

You are totally at the mercy of nature in this country, mate. It's just a fact of life.

I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

Understand the now. Don't even worry about five seconds later, worry about now.

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

I think there is a certain fascination with a man's hair.

I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest.

We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us-when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking? I needed a poem for myself that said-pause longer. Think again.