I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

No amount of money could make me play for Liverpool, that isn't disrespect to Liverpool or their fans, it's respect for Everton

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run.

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

My concept of drama requires obstacles, and there's no obstacles in comfort.

I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

If exercise was sold in the pill form, it would be the number pill sold throughout the world because the benefits are endless.

The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.

I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick.

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.