“Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.”

“Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.”

“Excuse me? Did I miss something? What has ever been romantic about vomit?“A man standing by your side when you’re sick. Holding your hair back from your face… that’s romantic.”“In what alternate universe do you live? Here in a place I like to call reality, that’s disgusting. Who in their right mind would find that romantic?”

“For one never makes a film out of nothing. To shoot a film is always to shoot something, be it fiction or reality, and the more shaky the reality, the more solid the fiction must be.”

“There is no such thing as a "hopeless romantic". As long as you are a romantic, there is hope.”

“I used to be a hopeless romantic. Now I'm just hopeless.”