Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

I don’t like to be bored.

Most of the time I don’t have much fun. The rest of the time I don’t have any fun at all.

Places I’ve lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it’s roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

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.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

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

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can’t you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that’s different from a California textbook that’s different from a Massachusetts textbook. That’s very expensive.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

I got my buzz from playing.

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you’ll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

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.

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

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

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

I’m a wandering gypsy.

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

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

I turned away from bikes when I got a bambino kart for my seventh birthday and started doing some karting, just around some cones at home, but I didn’t think at that point I knew I wanted to go into F1, it was more just for fun.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the ’40s – there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band.

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!

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

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

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

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.

I remember I was flying home to Los Angeles one day. I was talking to the woman next to me and the flight attendant tried to tell me I was sitting next to somebody that I should know. I didn’t recognize her but it ended up being Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

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.

It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

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