It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

It's time to stop producing stuff, and start producing fun.

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.

The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

What use are socks? They only produce holes.

It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.

I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

I have a swastika tattoo on my arm, but it's just because I like right-hand turns.

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.