His passage was free and easy, but those whom he left behind were reluctant to let go. Liu's biographer Yang Meng-yu once asked Liu whether he worried about not being able to wrap up loose ends should something befall him during one of his romps through some remote corner of the world.
曾經替劉其偉寫傳的楊孟瑜記得，她問過劉老，像他這樣到世界各地探險，萬一發生意外，會不會擔心還有什麼事情沒有完成？