Wow. I simply do not recognize that one. I've read pretty much everything Asimov has written. At least...I thought I had. I guess I'll have to go back and check now.
You should definitely get a hold of Murder at the ABA. It is a non-Sci-Fi novel and it is a riot.
Ooops! My bad....
It wasn’t an Asimov story, but a Ray Bradbury story.
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“The Man” by Ray Bradbury
“The Man” is a simple parable involving a prophet who travels from planet to planet; his best-known appearance was on Earth roughly 2,000 years ago. The Man doesn’t appear in the story himself—instead, it’s the story of Hart, a rocket ship captain who lands on an alien world shortly after the prophet’s departure. Hart’s initial incredulity about the Man soon turns into a violent obsession, and he threatens the quaint alien villagers with violence if they do not help him locate the prophet. Hart’s tragedy is that he thinks of God as a destination, something to be found elsewhere. He doesn’t realize that wherever the Man visits, he never truly leaves:
“And he’ll go on, planet after planet, seeking and seeking, and always and always he will be an hour late, or a half hour late, or ten minutes late, or a minute late... And he will go on and on, thinking to find that very thing which he left behind here, on this planet.”