That's the great advantage of being a foreigner: you're not paying your dues, but you are getting all the benefits.

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.

Nature is not out there

You’re only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that’s the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won’t but you can’t define yourself by their opinions.

Always live in active consciousness

I’m not looking for fate. I’m seventeen. I’m looking for kissing, and to move forward a few paces on the game board. You know, do some Living. (With my lips.)

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

Dressing up is all about reflecting how I feel.

President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell!