The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

To do good, you actually have to do something.

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

The rules of this house are written in water. I must either sink or swim.

Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.

No, I have something else between my legs.

If you have a dream , don't waste your energies explaining why.