America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.