I can't explain some of the things I've seen and...I've done some things I can't explain.

If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.

The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters.

As travelers, it is our responsibility to adapt, otherwise we miss the whole point: the opportunity to gain a new perspective.

Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one’s place in it.

When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

My world view has always been that there's just an enormous amount of cultural and religious diversity out there, all of which is really worth taking in.

Sometimes, when you're this adventurous, you rip the crotch out of your pants.

We cannot bear for our most mysterious experiences to remain unexplained. I've therefore learned...that every story has worth, since a person takes the time to tell it. The key is to listen.

What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*

Where can one buy a lit of that *Right Stuff* bravado required to shrug off the fact that your airplane is now a convertible?

It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.

The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was number one on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

Lord, we lift up your name. With hearts full of praise; Be exalted, O Lord my God! Hosanna in the highest!

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.

Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96

Ex hoc momento pendet aeternites. (Eternity hangs from this moment.)

Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble

I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a difference. I'm a cartoonist.