Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.

Today like every day roughly 5, 000 people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million things and not one of them will refuse to believe the evidence of their senses.

Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer

I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.

You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.

I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place on day one.

The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.