“And the scary thing is, I’m on a fast track to that same aviary. Unless I find my wings.”

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”

“Given a little wine, you will find folks are the same no matter what side of the railroad tracks they came from.”

“I confess to being a compulsive list maker- everything gets ordered into one of these categories: 1) Things I Must Do, 2) Things I Have To Do Or I’m A Dead Woman and 3) The Scary List.”

“Balls,” I said. “Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. On my tombstone they will carve, “IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.”

“The butterflies I get every time we’re together, are flapping their wings as fast as a hummingbird’s.”