My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?

The only things you learn are the things you tame

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.