Short form media is reductionist by nature.

But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.

Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.