If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all.

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

We are a nation of shop keepers.

I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.

Water flows because it's willing.

What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course.

After all tomorrow is another day.

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

Nature is harmony in discord.

Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are interesting. That makes an interesting story.