The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night, the desert is boundless, comfortless, and infinite. Like night, it intrigues the mind and leads it to futility. When you have flown halfway across a desert, you experience the desperation of a sleepless man waiting for dawn which only comes when the importance of its coming is lost.

That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity

Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.

The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.