Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

The purpose of our life is to help others through it.

Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous

Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful?

If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us.

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

How could I say that I wished to penetrate the secrets of the mountains in search of something still unknown that, like the yeti, might well be missed for the very fact of searching?

Be light, light, light - full of light!

Even the best laid plans turn to hell when exposed to reality

the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and one will ever save you.

I hate water. It's so boring. And it takes up so much room in your stomach.

I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?

I like California a lot. There's a lot of space, but it's actually the most populated place in the nation.

If you watch tonight's show, I believe you know that I believe we're heading into deep and treacherous waters.

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

I'm terrified of lasagna. I think it was to eat ME!

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.