I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.