One's destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.

Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the people they ignore at home

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.

The journey not the arrival matters.

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

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

I don't think I'll ever stop being grateful to my readers for everything they've done for me.

A Sunday well spent brings a week of content.

I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.

I mean, I don't necessarily want to leave because I have this job, but I would love to do a good play.

I don't like fast editing.

The message should be clear climate change must take its place along those threats like conflict poverty.

My older brother's really good at making fun of me for just being a workaholic and never taking time for myself. Even when we go on vacation, I'm always working.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

If you go into any physics lab, everybody is depressed and feels isolated. We don't get any feedback that anybody cares about what we're doing.

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.

When I was a child my December weekends were spent making cards decorating the tree hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.

I've always had great faith in people.

Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.

Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop "there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God.

Ben Karlin is a friend of mine and was a writer on 'The Daily Show.' He's just put out a book and asked a bunch of writers from various disciplines to contribute. It was called 'Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me,' and of course I agreed, and then I actually had to sit down and write it. God, writing fiction is terrifying.

I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.

The 200 m. is not my best event, and it's something I am learning.

We impugn the private sector, we impugn main street America, and the bureaucracy cannot be held to any different standard whatsoever.

When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your other activities.

Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.