Anyone who’s traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: ‚War,‘ by Sebastian Junger.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

‚Mystic River‘ just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Steak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

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

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

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

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it’s a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time – it’s very routine. I’m not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it’s cool; it’s good for me.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

No place is better than Akron.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

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.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

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

I’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

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.

I did this book ‚Harvest for Hope,‘ and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.