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

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.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

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

Never lose a holy curiosity.

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.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

I’m a Bangalore boy.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

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.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

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.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It’s on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

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

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

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

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.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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

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

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

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

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

In London, you’ll be walking around and, ‚Oh, there’s the ground.‘ Every area of the city has a Premier League club. They all survive; they all exist with enough money, and that’s good.

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

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

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

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.

I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

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.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

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