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"In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.'"
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"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."

"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

"I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave."

"I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases."

"Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist."

"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."

"I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures."
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"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."


"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."


"But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion."


"I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died."


"I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live."


"Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon."
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