I have my own hard earned money and if I buy a fly rod I'm going to give my money to the company that's giving me value. I'm going to the guy who gives me my money's worth.

I'm pretty good at letting people do what they are good at, that's why they're experts.

Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.

In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61.

I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world.

There are times when product is more important than people and sometimes the people are more important than the product.

People by themselves can be pretty stupid. People working together can be very powerful.

I see money as a reflection of how much impact you're having on the world. I see money as a metaphor in a way.

Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen.

Have you ever believed in something so completely that you were willing to give up everything and everyone in your life to protect it?

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some of them are kind of retro, and some of them you'd never know.

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

“You may have eternity. I have only now.” “But this is eternity.”

A house is not a home until it has a dog.

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

Mommies can't look gross!' J.J. protested.

I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place of the female body.