So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought property. I just move between temporary base camps. I know that the very notion of home, of having a family or community, is a hard one for me to embrace.

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.