Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

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

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.