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

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

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.

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

The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here to grow, to learn, to love, to be human.

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we're ruled by big talking turds, it doesn't mean that we are. So you shouldn't feel depressed.

We may attack systems. We must not attack men.

Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.

Know what? (Wulf) If halflings live past twenty-seven. But then anything is possible. I say in a few months we should pop us some Orville Redenbacher’s, then sit back and enjoy the show. (Spawn)

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.