The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?

The best sleep imaginable is sleeping in your dreams

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.

I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly.

I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.

No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.

My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet.