My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time.

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.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Manifesting your dreams into reality becomes easier when your passionate commitment engages your laser focus on success

In spite of what anyone says it’s women who make the rules.

I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain.

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.

Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live in our people's minds and lives.

The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.