Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last part of the descent, and collapsed on the Rongbuk glacier, and he was crawling over it on hands and knees when the woman who was his entire support team reached him; and he looked up at her out of a delirium, and said, “Where are all my friends?

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.