Ted Simon

Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.

— Ted Simon

The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as…

— Ted Simon

There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhere there is a matrix…

— Ted Simon

I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much…

— Ted Simon

“To be worth making at all, a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of…

— Ted Simon

It was going to be the journey of a lifetime, a journey that millions dream of and never make, and I wanted…

— Ted Simon

People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance…

— Ted Simon

It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most…

— Ted Simon

That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my…

— Ted Simon

“The enigma that had bothered me in Sydney was beginning to resolve itself. If Australians allowed themselves to be represented worldwide as…

— Ted Simon

“Maybe you know how it is when you have decided to do something really enormous with your life, something that stretches your…

— Ted Simon

To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of…

— Ted Simon

“In spite of wars and tourism and pictures by satellite, the world is just the same size it ever was. It is…

— Ted Simon