Dave was world-renowned. He loved life and had an amazing, uplifting personality. The world lost a great person that day.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not you go out and look for a successfull personality an duplicate it.

[The world may end up] under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

He was a giant in this century, as a violinist, musician, personality within the musical world. He was a real singular, individual human being, charismatic, and of course the most phenomenal child prodigy that ever existed, certainly in this century.

For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey’s bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well—by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion.

Jason emerged out of nowhere and gave the golf world a welcome breath of fresh air, ... His personality and pure enjoyment of the game are just tremendous. He is a person that represents the true spirit of the Shootout and will be a welcome addition to this elite, 24-person field.