He remembered a pilot telling him once, 'They pay us a hundred thousand dollars or more a year, Brian, and… — Stephen King
He remembered a pilot telling him once, 'They pay us a hundred thousand dollars or more a year, Brian, and they really do it for just one reason. They know that in almost every pilot's career, there are thirty or forty seconds when he might actually make a difference. They pay us not to freeze when those seconds finally come.'
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'I can always feel the light. It's like heat inside my head.'
'Second, people think better when their stomachs are full.' He shrugged. 'It's just a law of nature.'
It's like glimpsing a beautiful woman for just a moment in the back seat of a limousine - she looks even more beautiful than she really is because you know she's not yours, can never be yours.

