You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

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.

Don't just stand there and nod. The mind observes and cogitates, the heart engages, and I would encourage you to engage with the process.

A golden dragon. Splendid. My life expectancy has just become shorter than a gnome’s todger.

If you fail a thousand times, find a thousand and one ways to succeed.

Peace and gladness in every home is a peace for the society, nation and the world.

Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

We "chicks" have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Mathew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.

Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.