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.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

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

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

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

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.

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

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.

London is a roost for every bird.

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

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

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

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.

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.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Anyone who’s traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: ‚War,‘ by Sebastian Junger.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

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.

I make good music for long journeys.

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.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

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.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

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.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

The skin of my character in ‚The Man Who Fell to Earth‘ was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

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

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

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

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.

I became a beach bum.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.