Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.

Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

A pupil is a great resource.

One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

If the Almighty directs our steps, we've no need to look back over our shoulders.

Love and a red rose can't be hid.

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

I'm not really a horror movie fan.

The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own.

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.