Quotes on Rock Climbing

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.