Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.