When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks.

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.

Two sturdy oaks I mean which side by side Withstand the winters storm And spite of wind and tide Grow up the meadows pride For both are strong Above they barely touch but undermined Down to their deepest source Admiring you shall find Their roots are intertwined Inseprably.

In England, your life is your life.

There's a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn't anticipate.

We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost.

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person. I'm sorry.

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. "You're fired" is a very strong term.

I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to.

I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.

Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing.

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

My teammates, they put me on their backs and they wouldn't let me down.

Our children need to remember to love each other, how to honor each other, their parents, God, and their neighbors.

It's difficult to wear such high Louboutins and also freestyle rap.

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

The basic thing with adventure medicine or extreme medicine is that you are going to places where humans don't belong and people will certainly get into trouble.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.

I have often spoken about the importance of intentionality in philanthropy: that it has to stir the soul. This is true whether you are feeding the homeless, mentoring a child or working on climate change.

My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

So many people say you have to remember to grab hold of your bride or groom and spend time with them. I think if we had done a traditional wedding, we would have been doing it for everyone else, but this was about the two of us.

I like to communicate on my Instagram page with people: use it as a window to my world.

I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.