I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

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

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.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

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!

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

I feel Anglo-American.

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

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

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.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

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

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

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

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

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.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

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

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

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

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

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.

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

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

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, ‚I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.‘

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.