“To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it’s part of my life.”

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

When I climb a building, I’ve been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals.

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

I enjoy every climb – maybe it’s because it’s a literal dance between life and death.

Life has to be dangerous.

Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.

I don’t want to follow the herd.

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent’s apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

When I sell liquor, it’s bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it’s hospitality.

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Beer, it’s the best damn drink in the world.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.