The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.

There is a sense of oneness that from time to time I'm aware of in my life. Certainly not all the time, and there are times when I get frightened and when I get upset. But at the best of times, it's a personal oneness.

Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

"What is my highest sense of right?" we can ask at any decision point in our lives and not worry about if this is going to lose us a lot of money or is this going to make us a lot of money or whatever.