Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was light. Watch it... Lovely.

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.