when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.

GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end.

The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.

I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine.

We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism.

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

On life’s journey, every person met, every place, every new word, language, scent & sound changes the traveller a little: forms who they are and whom they become

The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.

Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we're stressed, just a little.

She died without us by her side, and now, we are left with the scars. In time, they will fade, but their haunting memory will remain.

I'd have your back off-site too, if you'd let me." ~Cain, Ghost of You

The most beautiful vision is the one that lines your heart and fills your mind~bns

For me, I feel like if a woman doesn't find me attractive 'cause I'm taking care of myself, then that's not the woman I want.

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.

At a party recently I was introduced to Meryl Streep, and it took me a second to get my head around it. You know, that I'm meeting these people now. I'm doing it.

If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher

You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, and your intentions create your reality.