“I could not have climbed any mountains while looking from the ground... I would not have flown... or dived... or surfed... or swum... I am not a tourist nor a spectator... this is the life I have left, and I will not waste it like some rubber-neck”

“Use everything you have to become what they said you couldn't”

“I felt like I had the weight of the world on my shoulders until I REALIZED I had the power to take it off”

“It was how it had been with the madman among the tombs, that their number was legion, far in excess at any rate if the number listed on the back of the door as the room's maximum occupancy.”

“It was a little like having religion. The world was a more interesting place if there was more to it than met the eye.”

“A willingness to go against the conventional wisdom was one of the side effects of looking at the world in a particular light.”

“I could not have climbed any mountains while looking from the ground... I would not have flown... or dived... or surfed... or swum... I am not a tourist nor a spectator... this is the life I have left, and I will not waste it like some rubber-neck”

“He will one day meet his true love... A fellow traveler on the road... Her eyes will be his ocean... In her ocean he will sail forever....”