The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping.

When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.

I am happiest in the brush and by myself - whether that's the woods of northern Minnesota or the wilds of Alaska behind a dogteam, picking through the foothills of the mountains by my ranch in New Mexico on horseback, or on the ship of my sailboat on the Pacific - so I guess it made sense to me that both Brian and Samuel would find their challenges and adventures, if that's what you call them, in the woods.