Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.

If you believe, it shall be.

How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words?

I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.

I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.

I really consider myself very fortunate over the years to have the experiences that I had and to be able to come out on top tonight means the world. It's been a long road and it's a lot of hard.

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine.

Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.