There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.

Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.

On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.

On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.

Silence by any other name is called shame.

Harry, my wand!

The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves.

Theater is such a small community that every brilliant piece of theater raises us all up.

The path that is followed by most persons in the beginning of their spitirual search is the path of love, bhakti yoga.

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

I don't intend to kind of like wind down and get decrepit. I have a challenge to keep myself going. To eat right. To exercise.

Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.

I don't think I have any bad features.