I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.

I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire.

The common thread in all of my climbing is it was something new, something never done before. That commonality is more important than the discipline.

To anyone writing about #dawnwall, this is not an effort to 'conquer.' It's about realizing a dream.

When you would grab that last hole you could literally feel all of the hope, desire and stress drop off of you.

When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.

I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.

Everything you need comes into focus when you abandon the unneeded.

Look at labor policy. What's the point of making everybody work too much? It's not very useful. It is destroying the planet, actually. But it's great at keeping people off the streets.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you are miserable because nothing really matters.

My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The First Amendment doesn't come into play because it's a private magazine.

My life is, like, really, really fun.

With performing live, you obviously don't get the luxury of another take, but for me, it is all the same.