A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward progress with our bodies.

I don't want to die, but I'm ok putting it all out there for the most beautiful expression of my life.

We who walk the narrow line have stood for free thinking for thousands of years. Let us continue balancing within the world as we try to understand the space between.

I don't have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I'm more of an artist. I just try to make myself more a part of the most beautiful painting as possible. And enjoy it.

More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer.

The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to fly or to walk on air - which I feel is all possible.

Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg.

It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

After all those neurochemicals are drained out, it takes a while for them to replenish so on the back end of flow state...I can barely string sentences together. I become stupid.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance

As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.

Honestly, I love stealing things.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.

Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

May every memory that you share Of dreams you've seen come true, Help make this special anniversary day A happy one, for the two of you

But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.