Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world.

There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.

Trying to connect to the moment, that move, that breath - this is what I have been striving for; finding the oneness that can exist with all the things around and inside me.

John Wayne never wore Lycra.

When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.

Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your responsibility, nobody else's.

Bouldering is the synthesis of all skills needed for climbing

The universe makes it possible. Your mindset makes it probable. Your action makes it reality.

Good to evil seems evil a

We never repent of having eaten too little.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

I try to do one to two days with no meat. I try to lessen my gluten. Those are things that I struggle with.

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

I wish I believed I'd see my parents again, see my wife again. But I know it's not going to happen.