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

“I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.”

“Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.”

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”

“Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.”

“The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.”

“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.”

“Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.”

“I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.”