With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made.

Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you.

The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.

All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.

Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the ground.

Airplanes are like women - pick what you like and try to get it away from the guy who has it, then dress it out to the limit of your wallet and taste.

It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on!

The hard, inescapable reality is that anyone who flies may die in an airplane.

The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how to properly pace a story, how to develop interesting characters.

A little mountain will kill you just as dead as a big one if you fly into it.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

So much one man can do that does both act and know.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.

Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

Also, chubby people can never truly pull off ethereal the same way skinny people can never be jolly.

What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.