We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.

Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

A pupil is a great resource.

One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

Hollywood was a fantasy world in more ways than one.

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

Stefan would be so great for her, because it's just so annoying watching those two on screen all the time!

I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!