I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.