When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

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

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

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.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Not all those who wander are lost.

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you’ll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

I’m a Bangalore boy.

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.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

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.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

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.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

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

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

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 never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.