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.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

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.‘

A word to the wise is infuriating.

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

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

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.

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’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

Not all those who wander are lost.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can’t fly home.

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 have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

General consultant to mankind.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

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.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

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

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

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.

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

I’m a Bangalore boy.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

Travel teaches toleration.

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

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

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

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

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

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.