It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.

I do have trouble with titles.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

Zen is the vehicle of reality.

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.