"To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines."
"Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can’t even begin to understand or explain.’’
‘‘I can’t say what made me fall in love with Vietnam – that a woman’s voice can drug you; that everything is so intense. The colours, the taste, even the rain."
"If I had to eat one city’s food for the rest of my life, every day it would have to be Tokyo."
"Humour is the merit of our nation. Caustic and bitter, simple-hearted and intricate, Russian humour has lived through the most ferocious, most desperate years."
"Barcelona is one of the best cities in the world. I love it there."
"In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds."