Jon Krakauer

"It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty..."

"When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you.."

"I didn't doubt the potential value of paying attention to subconscious cues...Problem was, my inner voice resembled Chicken Little: it was screaming that I was about to die, but it did that almost every time I laced up my climbing boots."