Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.

Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable.