The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.

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.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

Why do we put our self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.

I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.

Well, I have a testimony, I may be ignorant, but I am not lost.

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

Is Bobby Fischer quite sane?

He should be the one to die, part of me thinks. I don't want to lose him, another part argues. I don't know which part to believe.