“Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.”

“A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.”

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that there would be someone ho loved him enough to stop him. To kill him, if it came to that.”

“It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.”

“He killed himself for wanting to live.”

“Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over… himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it.”

“Bow before him, all creation!
Mortals, own the God of love!
Seek him high the stars above,—
Yonder is his habitation!”

“He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.”

“Keep climbing,' he told himself.
'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied.
'Shut up,' he thought.
'With fries,' his stomach complained.”