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.

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.

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.

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

(His WIFE, understanding everything, wants him to stay. MARVIN wants to go. Or MARVIN wants to stay. She wants him to go. Anyway, he's going.)

If you can't stomach an ending, don't begin.

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.

I’m sure I look a wreck. But he’s the one who wrecked me so he may as well take a good long look at what he’s done.

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.

As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.

...if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.

When we lead worship we should be looking for the activity of God...our response is also a partaking of the worship that is going on in heaven.

Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.