Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.

You can’t coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.

Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.

The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution.

In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.

Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

You will never exploit your full technical capacity if your fitness remains a weak link.

The simpler we make things, the richer the experiences become.

The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.

On big routes in big mountains, speed equals safety.

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence:Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.

Set your mind that no matter what is going on in your life, you will have a good attitude.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.

Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything.

I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

Ah... Much better" he said. "Backbiter, Luke called it. An appropriate name. Now that it is reforged comeplately, it shall indeed bite back

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.

I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.