I don't want to die, but I'm ok putting it all out there for the most beautiful expression of my life.

We who walk the narrow line have stood for free thinking for thousands of years. Let us continue balancing within the world as we try to understand the space between.

I don't have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I'm more of an artist. I just try to make myself more a part of the most beautiful painting as possible. And enjoy it.

More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer.

The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to fly or to walk on air - which I feel is all possible.

Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg.

A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward progress with our bodies.

It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

After all those neurochemicals are drained out, it takes a while for them to replenish so on the back end of flow state...I can barely string sentences together. I become stupid.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

I never thought I'd be one of those guys who gets recognized.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

I've always loved fast vehicles and looking at interesting cars.

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.