Michel Faber Quotes

Pray be always in motion. Early in the morning go and see things; and the rest of the day go and see people. If you stay but a week at a place, and that an insignificant one, see, however, all that is to be seen there; know as many people, and get into as many houses as ever you can.

There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex

Why is partying and having a good time bad?

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

One thing I look forward to is seeing new places and new people.

People always travel no matter what.

There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

If you really take a step back and observe people who are considered super-normal and watch them a bit, you'll realize that they're actually completely out of their minds! Most people are really nuts, and that's fascinating.

Why don't we get drunk and screw?

Drink beer, smoke dope, and eat pussy until your jaw breaks

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

I love to travel, which is sort of why I do documentaries and why I'm in this whole world of movies - you get to meet amazing people and see how other people live. It opens your eyes. That's what I love.

Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.

To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.

It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people a week. I'm like "Which is better?" At least I was trying.

My sister is 16 and I tell her to take risks. Really explore and meet as many people as you can. Do as much as you can before reality kicks in. Have fun.

I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to be a norm in modern society.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any.

I beg young people to travel.