The Cannibal Queen Quotes

“The sun coming through the gaps in the drifting clouds gives the land the look of pastels. No wonder several generations of artists have been enchanted by New Mexico. This place is enough to make Monet’s knees quiver.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into The Heart Of America

“Are warbirds the ultimate upscale status toy? Certainly. They’re like beautiful women—if you have to ask what one costs, you can’t afford it.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America

“Guys that set off to hike around the world are a dime a dozen in California. Every day in this state women tell divorce judges, “He walked to the corner convenience store for a pack of cigarettes and decided to keep going, all the way around the world, and here is the postcard he sent to let me know.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America

“I learned that dreams don’t always come true, that I would get out of life only what I put into it, that happiness is a state of mind, not a condition to be achieved or a commodity that can be bought and sold.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America

“Democracy is built on the simplest premise that has ever supported a political system, that a majority of the voters will be right more often than they are wrong.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America

“And a whole lot of people who go flying with him and his pilots get a taste of real flying, not the airline passenger stuff, which is to flying what masturbation is to sex, merely a pale imitation of the real thing.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America

“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.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America

“Mountains are so big and I am so small—God must be like that. Mountains remind me of Him.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into The Heart Of America

“Our planet is a tiny lifeboat in the infinity of hostile space, yet we persist in chopping holes in the bottom.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into The Heart Of America

“I like flying. I like getting up early in the morning and looking out the window at the sky, the feeling of the breeze on my face as I preflight the airplane, the look and smell and feel of the airplane. I like anticipating the flight to come and imagining how it will be. I like thinking about it afterward. I like everything about flying.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into The Heart Of America

“Only in Nevada can you put up a billboard that says “Hot Slots” and attract thousands of women.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America

“Tailwinds are like smiles from beautiful women—rare and to be cherished.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America

“Flying is like sex—I’ve never had all I wanted but occasionally I’ve had all I could stand.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America

“Experience, the wise man said, is a hard teacher. First comes the test, then the lesson.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America

“If they get ready and we aren’t there, they’ll fuss at us,” Ray tells his son. Poor devil, I think. Women are the same everywhere.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America

“Flight is romance—not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.”
― Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America