There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.

I look at climbing not so much as standing on the top as seeing the other side. There are always other horizons in front of you, other horizons to go beyond and that's what I like about climbing.

If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.

The wind is the appalling enemy. It is mind-destroying, physically-destroying, soul-destroying.

If you learn from every mistake, you never fail at anything.

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Horror alone brings peace of mind.

Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.

Stuff with a group, stuff where there are other people around, I'll try that.

I've forgotten more about music than I ever knew.

People on the edge of love go with their heart and not their head.

whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.