Our relationship with Nature. . . best way of forging this relationship. . . be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.
People need to learn to live with more risk.
Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.
Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.
To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.
It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.
I started pulling gags on Al [Pachino]. That was the moment I realized that he was absolutely out of his mind. I mean that he's certifiably insane. I wouldn't spend a night in a room where he's at.
The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. . . . The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.
Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.
There's a limit here. This is how far we go and we don't go further. And I also think by talking about [gifts] it that way, it avoids the unspoken idea that money is the expression of love.