I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.

Emotion has its place, but it must not interfere with taking the appropriate action.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you cannot have an opinion.

Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent.

Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. “It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to dying.

Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

I say I don't sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I don't sleep with happily married men.

Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors.

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.