The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.

You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run.

The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

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

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.