“We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own.”

“Alas! Charles made the promise glibly, and forgot all about it.”

“Sometimes those experiences crowd back upon the memory, and the past flashes back like a distant peak momentarily lighted up by sunbeam piercing through the clouds. Then oblivion again. Strange it ...”

“That time when past begins to look longer than the future”

“There is no night porter wandering about in King's. The authorities pay you the compliment, ugly gate-crasher, of treating you as a grown-up. And since we are not grown-up you and I, we will perfor...”

“Lest others should attempt the ascent of this terrible climb and perish, they swore themselves to secrecy (telling only enough people to ensure the perpetuation of their epic) and went off to try E...”

“When people tell me they cant afford to join a gym, I tell them to go outside; planet Earth is a gym and were already members. Run, climb, sweat, and enjoy all of the natural wonder that is availab...”

“Don't hide in the trees when you know that tigers can climb.”

“Just because you came to the end of your rope, doesn't mean that you were climbing down.”

“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”

“Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat ...”

“The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival”