Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.