I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death.

To do is to be – AristotleTo be or not to be – ShakespeareTo be is to do – Jean-Paul SartreDo be do be do – Frank Sinatra

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.

The subconscious mind is shielding or showing numerous potential paths, based on what it determines would represent a consistent reality for you.

They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

You are only given one life, one chance at fully living it...take risks, believe in your dreams, explore the world and her people, live out loud!

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.

I was supposed to stay for 3 months. But I think I always knew I would stay a little longer, despite the crazy Frenchies. Or maybe because of them.

When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration.