Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song
Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.
Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.
Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us give half of ourselves-it demands all of us. It demands our best.
With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.
My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.
"Diamonds & Rust" started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the words come from some place else. But when the songs stop coming, it would be so contrived to try and force it. Since then I've just been doing other people's music.
You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America.
If you aren't an activist you're an inactivist.
I adore pretty things & witty words.