My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

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.

The sky mingled with the Earth infinitely in the tenderness of rain drops.

Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?

It is not what we do it is how much love we put in the doing.

The best things in life are free - and $19.95.

To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

All of my clients have athletic or curvy, healthy bodies.

I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.