It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

No amount of money could make me play for Liverpool, that isn't disrespect to Liverpool or their fans, it's respect for Everton

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 sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run.

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

My concept of drama requires obstacles, and there's no obstacles in comfort.

I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.

Make your name and know your value

What was to fear from a foe that could be defeated by a few potholes and the heat of the sun?

Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It's frightening. I actually look pretty good.

In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis.

We'll look enough like we do now to recognise each other, identify each other and know each other!

One's strongest asset is simultaneously his point of strongest vulnerability.

Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.

If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.

I like older boys, but they think, 'She's underage.' I'd love to have somebody in mind when I sing.

Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.