[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

Incoming is not the thing you want to hear at Christmas.

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.

Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'

I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it.

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.