“I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel…”

“I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.”

“A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.”

“Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.”

“Science has taught… me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my aspirations.”

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I am going is what inspires me to travel it.”

“I do not think we are deceived to grow,
But that the crudest fancy, slightest show,
Covers some separate truth that we may know.

In the one Truth, each separate fact is true;
Eternally in one I many view,
And destinies through destiny pursue.”

“I travel all around the world for my surfing, and I’ve always been able to eat vegan. I feel like if you want something you can make it happen. I just don’t make any excuses. I would never not be vegan now that I know all the benefits and now that I know how it feels to be vegan.”

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life”