I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet.