A pessimist is a liar, unless he destroys himself, and no less of a hypocrite than a priest who defiles the holy.

that's the thing with secrets. They're leaky

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Just so you know: if a rakshasa shows up, I left my sword in the car.

I've climbed with some of the best climbers in the world, more importantly, to me, they are some of the best people in the world. That's another reason why I climb.

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?

Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats.