A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.

What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.

Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think I could ever do that.