Quotes About Travel

he waited for one load of passengers to get off and another to get on, he would never see the

cramped compartment for the overhead lockers. As Alex reached up for his own travel bag, the Game Boy almost fell out of his grip. Troy's head snapped around. Alex saw a flash of alarm in her eyes. "Be careful with that!" she

The British Airways Airbus

they would have learned that this plane belonged to a photographic company based in Jamaica

He was witty. He was generous. And if he could be a complete prick some of the time, there were plenty of compensations.' She counted them on her fingers. 'I had an allowance. I had this house. I had expensive presents. I could travel. Charles might be out there being photographed with different floozies for the gossip columns, but I was the one he always came home to.

It tasted like all foreign spirits do after they've passed through Heathrow. Wrong.

A donde quiera que vayas, sin importar el clima, siempre lleva tu rayito de sol

I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.

I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.

I realized that we don't travel in such a linear way anymore but rather jump from one point to another and back again. So I got this idea for a 'constellation' novel recounting experiences that were separate from each other but could still be connected on different psychological, physical and political levels.

I buy so much when I go through airports: I buy psychology magazines; I buy 'Mind,' another magazine, 'New Scientist,' 'Scientific America.'

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

For me, normal means freedom to live life as we choose, from cramming into packed planes to go on holiday to crowding into pubs for birthday parties.

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.

When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.

When I was 11, I went to Puerto Rico for a month to stay with my grandmother. To see the way people lived there and experience my own culture was wonderful.

Hollywood was possible for a while! Why didn't I go along with it? Well, the other things that were pulling me back were more important. Being at home, being in the same marriage, these things enabled me to go off and travel in the first place.

When I travel, I connect with creative people in all different fields and disciplines. It's sort of just to keep my finger on the pulse of what's going on. I think that's important.

Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn't be as difficult. I can't imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX.

Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer.

Being on the road isn't hell - it's pure pleasure now.

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B.