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

Paris is always a good idea.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it’s a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

I love all kinds of insects, and I’ve heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

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.

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

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

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.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

If I’m in the ‚hood, I like Chef Creole’s Haitian rice and stewed chicken.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

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

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

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.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

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

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.

I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

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 remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when I was very, very small, like, I was, like, 5 years old, I believe. And I remember going out there, you know, traveling to these states and living in these little tarpaper shacks that they had in Wyoming.

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

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

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

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

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

Exploration by real people inspires us.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

I make good music for long journeys.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

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

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Truth is a pathless land.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‚Bye!‘

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.