The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...

This is the gift and the sorrow of the Athanate

Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here.

I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.

There is no original sin. It's all been done before.

As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]

Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.