And to this day I wish I had lingered a week or so…. But we stupid mortals, or most of us, are always in haste to reach somewhere else, forgetting that the zest is in the journey and not in the destination. – Ralph D. Paine, Roads of Adventure
The reason for not getting married was that I just didnt have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that. – Tamae Watanabe
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. – Norman Spinrad