The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

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.

Girls should be strong together. Strong like steel, merry like the tinkling of chimes dancing in the wind.

I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple buisness of planning a war," he said. -Baron Arald

Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.

I don't like when things don't match. I love some Eighties fashion, like Grace Jones but primary colours only work in certain situations.

Only describe, don't explain.

we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.