It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy.

Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off?

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

The more I make the more I can give away.

I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.

Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac.