Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

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.

Magician is the best storyteller in the world.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.

A person's level of income and their desire to give have nothing to do with one another.

I'm a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.