Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.

Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.