You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.
“Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.”
“Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore.”