The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.

Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.

What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding?

The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.

I'm kind of all over the place, and I need grounding.

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining

I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe's deserve a free and fair election.

Men who like women rarely fall in love.

I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.

Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.