Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.

I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're all going to die, and I'd rather die climbing than doing anything else.

Death is a gift. Without it we wouldn't value life.

Soloing is serious business, because you can be seriously dead.

Wind is wind.

If you're determined to face death, then you'll find away to live.

For as soon as something becomes impossible it slipslides out of belief entirely, whether it’s true or not.

He had a courtly way of exclaiming over whatever was exclaimable in people – especially kids.

That was the heart of the problem: every choice made sense from some vantage point.

You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.

Your heart pilots you to a far better life than you could have ever dreamed of. That's how the heart works.