I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.

If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.

I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive.

You and I are to be a true member of the provoked generation.

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It had some advice to offer on drunkenness. "Go to it, " it said, "and good luck.

Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

Pretty much everything about you gets me hot.

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.

I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.