“Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.”

“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”

“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.”

“Nobody likes to life anchors.”

“Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it?”

“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”

“During our last year in the mountains new people came deep into our lives and nothing was ever the same again. The winter of the avalanches was like a happy and innocent winter in childhood compared to the next winter, a nightmare winter disguised as the greatest fun of all, and the murderous summer that was to follow. It was that year that the rich showed up.”