The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than walking on flat ground which is monotonous. The cute little problems present themselves at each step and yet you don't hesitate and you find yourself on some other boulder you picked out for no special reason at all, just like zen.~ Japhy

The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

There are worse things than being mad.

They build their own Hells.

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.