Quotes by Tim Cahill

“Men who share misery together are forever brothers”

Elk were mating now - The males were fighting, and they had to chase the females, which depleted the fat that both sexes had accumulated over the summer and thereby diminished their chances of surviving the winter. It would be better for the elk, Dave said as we prepared dinner, if the females just gave it up.All three women stared at him. A silence ensued. Dave said, Or I could be wrong.

A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea...Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we dont go right now, were never going to do it. And well be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.

My first book was called Buried Dreams, about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guys mind.

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 think about the impossibility of what Im trying to, Ill be defeated by it.

I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, theyre going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and theyre going to care more about protecting them than they would have before.

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

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.