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

My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time..

A journey is measured in friends, not miles..

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

Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those fi….

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility..

When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own cr….

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

I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to….

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

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece..

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weigh….

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

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 ca….

Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others ….

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

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striv….

A lot of the physical flirtation with fear I did early on in my career, when I was a much younger person - stuff I wouldn't do now. But I was very in….

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 be….

The explorer is the person who is lost..

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write..