“It doesn't require much thought for one to realise that any travel book worthy of the name has to be a departure from the standard...”

“The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly decent the world over. Given t...”

“The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.”

“I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line abo...”

“I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and pian...”

“Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose...”

“In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.”

“It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're g...”

“So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.”

“When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over th...”

“Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorb...”

“I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back an...”