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.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

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.

I’ve seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.

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.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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.

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.

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.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

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.

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

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

Hunger is the best pickle.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

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

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

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.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don’t eat them.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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

Why can’t I just eat my waffle?

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

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

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

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

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

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

If I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.

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.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

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

I love food.