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

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.

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 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.

Short questions with long answers, my boy.

Lover of poetry, prose and procrastination.

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is really just try to work from the heart and do the best job that you can and hope for the best.

There are 43 million people who are locked into predatory student loan debt, from which there is no exit.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

Everything is decided bya person's thoughts and if he is ideologically motivated, there is nothing he cannot do.

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.