Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.