There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey . . . something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.

If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.

I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.