I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire.

I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.

The common thread in all of my climbing is it was something new, something never done before. That commonality is more important than the discipline.

To anyone writing about #dawnwall, this is not an effort to 'conquer.' It's about realizing a dream.

When you would grab that last hole you could literally feel all of the hope, desire and stress drop off of you.

When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.

I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.

A writer cannot really grasp what he has written. It is not like a building or a sculpture

Focus on what's next, not what came before.

Your history doesn't need to dictate your destiny

All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

Our kids haven't any airs about them. I don't like posh kids who don't like dirty dolls or expect a chauffeur every time they go out.

A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to Newton as it is to any other religious smart person

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.