“The enigma that had bothered me in Sydney was beginning to resolve itself. If Australians allowed themselves to be represented worldwide as a nation of beer-sodden boors and hysterical Amazons, it must be through sheer lack of imagination. Like most… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons. — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhere there is a matrix for mankind… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
“To be worth making at all, a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
It was going to be the journey of a lifetime, a journey that millions dream of and never make, and I wanted to do… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most likely to… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my way from… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
“The enigma that had bothered me in Sydney was beginning to resolve itself. If Australians allowed themselves to be represented worldwide as a nation… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
“Maybe you know how it is when you have decided to do something really enormous with your life, something that stretches your resources to… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
