The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done this way.'

"Stories are like rivers, always flowing, always changing."

It is silly not to hope, he thought.

"Writing is the closest thing we have to magic."

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

The wild is a place of challenges. To survive, you have to face them head-on.