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“My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.”
“Wonderful souls make life wonderful.”
“Wherever we travel to, the wonderful people we meet become our family.”
“He had his eyes closed androcked himself so much that everyone thought he wouldsoon crash to the ground. And then it happened. Hecrashed to the ground. Surprised, he lay on the groundon his side, n...”
“I write to get ideas out of my head”
“Were pieces on a chessboard and we make our moves when its our turn. If we dont, our decisions are made for us.”
“He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years he thought his mind may one day blur, should he survive to an old age, but as he...”
“I felt that the magical people must be in the hidden back roads and dusty cubby holes of life; on highways, in hostels, and in shabby, smoky cafes. These enchanting people are in trees, around fire...”
“Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.”
“That's what you would do with untold power? Eat cake?”
“The question I'm most commonly asked is "Why?" A more pertinent question might be, why is it that more people don't attempt to escape the limitations imposed upon them? If Tracks has a message at a...”
“Look to the past with wisdom, and look to the future with courage.”
“I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.”
“Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughlyknown; we have only to follow the thread of the heropath. And w...”
“It's a limitless new world, and we are only just beginning to explore it.”
“Space opera, as every reader doubtless knows, is a pejorative term often applied to a story that has an element of adventure. Over the decades, brilliant and talented new writers appear, receiving ...”
“It is always harder to climb the mountain. One must find strength of hope within the depths of heart to move onward.”
“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There ...”
“When I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head. True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from sp...”
“It's a choice, its a bold move - disassembling the Box - and one that requires assertion, but the rewards are remarkable!!”