“The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing.”
“We're more cerebral than physical.""Your cerebrum can't have an orgasm.”
“Everybody grows up by leaps, and not by a steady climb like a mountaineer.”
“Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!”
“If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed!”
“There may be more to learn by climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.”