Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

If you can get conservatives to sit down for 20 minutes and listen to you on drug policy reform you might have a good chance to - if not convert them - at least respect your opinion.

I think it will be pretty hard to deny the fact that prohibition of marijuana is on its way out.

I've traveled all over the country. Look at the East Coast. They just can't hardly believe how far along we are and in their world it feels like they're still behind. They're on the dark side of the moon.

It's just in Washington we're talking about equal rights for gay people, civil liberty to smoke marijuana, taking care of the environment, and it's all just decency and common sense and patriotism. And in other parts of the country that would be, like, inconceivable.

I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.