"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."

"I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant."

"Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn."

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

"Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing."

"You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel."

"The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering."

"I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure."