“Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain…”

“You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.”

“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.”

“Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.”

“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”

“She was a girl with a mountain to climb.”

“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.”

“This mountain, I thought, was like education: The higher you climbed, the farther you could see.”

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”

“Every mountain is, rightly considered, an invitation to climb.”