and this passion, like bad kerosene, barely burns.

Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.

The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.

Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.

One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.

We didn't look like scoring, although we looked like we were going to get a goal.

Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.

it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.

[Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist

There never were, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel.

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it’s presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on things we choose to focus on.

Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits.

Some people just don’t appreciate having a dog around. It’s sad to think there are people like that. I knew Gloria was that way—maybe that’s why she could never be truly happy.