To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.

All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.

I think that mass communications as well as mass travel have made the whole world available to us in ways that they haven't been. As with any kind of freedom, the more of it that one has the greater the need for limit and restraint. But I think that it's a nice challenge to be saddled with.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.