Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.

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

What one leads on-sight, in good, strong style, safely, is what one's ability is.

Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis and less frenzy.

Science asymptotically approaches reality.

I vote, I participate, I am present, I am concerned" - mirror of a paradoxical mockery, mirror of the indifference of all public signification.

It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting.

What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God.

Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it.

I believe I am more intelligent than the average person.

Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.

Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.