Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‚Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.‘ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.

When I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I make good music for long journeys.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

I’ll stay in Memphis.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

Back in Oakland, we have a lot of food in the locker room, but on the road, it’s mostly just fruit. So we have to prepare differently. But really, once you get to the gym, everything on the road is pretty much the same.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.