I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

If you would judge, understand.

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

Truth is a pathless land.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

We boil at different degrees.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

I’m a Bangalore boy.

Paris ain’t much of a town.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

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.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

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

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I’ve seen on some of the songs that I’ve written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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.

Racism is real in this country.

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.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.