It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.

The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence.