I wanted to go everywhere. I would have started on a day's notice for the North Pole or the South, to the jungle or the desert. It made not the slightest difference to me.

Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners.

I never let practical considerations clutter my youthful dreams.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.

I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.

Whole part of the world is a mess under [Barack] Obama, with all the strength that you're talking about and all of the power of NATO.

I love shopping, especially food shopping.

Only the dead stay seventeen forever.

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.

You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you're known for the wrong things.

Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.