Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.

The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.

Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.

I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.

I write well on the road. I have the energy, I have the motivation to write. I'm happy when I'm on the road.