Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift.

Trading old broken mirrors that feed lies into our souls for new mirrors of freedom requires choices.

To create new reality, change the perception but not the reality.

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts.

My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in.

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!

Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra.

I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after.