Do you know what the luckiest thing is?’‘No.’‘It is to be at home everywhere.

When we’ve been travelling around I’ve often thought: Oh, this would be a good place to be, and that would be an excellent place to live. And yet, after I’ve seen everything I’ve decided that home, wherever that may be, is the place for feelings of peace. And if I can be at peace with myself then that is the most important thing. I think travelling teaches one that.

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.