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.

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.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

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

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.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

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

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

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

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.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

I’m not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

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

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

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

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

I remember I was flying home to Los Angeles one day. I was talking to the woman next to me and the flight attendant tried to tell me I was sitting next to somebody that I should know. I didn’t recognize her but it ended up being Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles.

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

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Touring is hard on the body.

Steak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

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.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

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

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

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.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.