Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.

You can’t coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.

The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution.

In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.

Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

You will never exploit your full technical capacity if your fitness remains a weak link.

The simpler we make things, the richer the experiences become.

The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.

On big routes in big mountains, speed equals safety.

Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

The past is already documented and the present is taking shape with every moment, but the future is always in-view.

I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.

It's funny how much of childhood is about proximity. Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

I will wait for Cleopatra, for I know my time must come. And I'm getting ready for wherever she'll be at-tra, cause I'm getting stronger now and not so dumb.

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe.

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.